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REPORT ON THE CATTLE PLAGUE. 
were ordered to stop all the cattle and horse fairs which were 
to be held in the succeeding months of September and 
October. 
By the strictest enforcement of these sanitary regulations 
this division of Prussia was preserved until the spring of 
1857, when the malady crossed the frontier, and showed itself 
in the villages of Bassnitzkehmen and Meldiglaucken on the 
2d and 3d of April. The disease, however, was at once 
arrested by the establishment of a military cordon, and by 
the wholesale slaughter of the animals affected, as also of 
those suspected to be diseased, and the burial of their carcases 
in quicklime in holes eight feet deep. 
It was this immediate arrestation of the pest in this district 
which induced us, as has been previously observed, to alter 
our route and to go on to Silesia, instead of into Eastern Prussia 
and Ccurland, with a view of studying the nature of the 
malady. 
From the preceding particulars it appears, then, that 
since the latter part of 1855 the disease has entered the king- 
dom of Prussia from adjacent countries in three of its different 
provinces, namely, in November, 1855, in the circle of Inow- 
raclaw, province of Posen; in March, 1857, in the districts 
of Tost-Gleiwitz and Lubinitz, province of Silesia; and in 
the following April in the villages of Bassnitzkehmen and 
Meldiglaucken, province of East Prussia; besides having 
prevailed for several months in 1856 in other parts of Silesia, 
coming there from Posen. 
Galicia. 
Leaving Silesia, we proceeded to Cracow, taking with us 
letters of recommendation from Baron Schleinitz to Count 
Clam Martinitz, president of this division of Galicia. Wait- 
ing our arrival also, we found at the paste- restante a similar 
communication from Sir G. H. Seymour, her Majesty’s 
Ambassador at Vienna, which was accompanied by the sub- 
joined letter : 
“ Vienna; April 27, 1856. 
“ Sir, — In compliance with the request made in your behalf by her 
Majesty’s Legation at Berlin, I at once applied to the Minister of the In- 
terior for the facilities of which you stand in need, and have now the plea- 
sure of forwarding to you the enclosed letter of introduction for Count Clam 
Martinitz, President of the Government of Cracow, who has already 
received instructions by telegraph to afford you every possible assistance in 
the prosecution of the inquiries with which you have been entrusted by 
