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ON TUMOURS IN CATTLE. 
is vulgarly called, which occasions those tumours, it may be of 
great benefit. An. ounce and*a half to a beast of thirty-five stone 
Dutch per day is enough* and less, according to the size of the 
cattle. I think it might be useful to clip away all the hair as soon 
as the tumour appears, and foment three or four times a day with 
very warm water, using blanketing, or some such thing, and fo- 
menting for twenty minutes each time. I would wet the place 
all over with a little laudanum. Let the cattle get plenty of good 
water at all times, and attention should be paid to the state of 
their bowels.” 
Notwithstanding these and some other communications on the 
subject, I was unable to ascertain satisfactorily the cause of this 
destructive disease. But as it appeared to me to depend upon 
some local cause, and as the case was one of considerable import- 
ance, and seemed rather mysterious, I resolved to visit the place, 
in order to make particular investigation, and satisfy myself upon 
the subject. Having arranged that Mr. Hood should inform me 
when the disease made its appearance, and having received notice 
that two had become affected, I set off to Sutherlandshire in June 
1832, enjoying, as far as the unfortunate circumstance of a wet 
day on a stage coach would allow, the beautiful and romantic scenery 
with which the highlands abound, and which is, at that season of 
the year, the most richly adorned. Leaving Inverness with the 
mail, and in passing through Ross-shire, I was kept awake by the 
interest which the delightful appearance that country exhibits. The 
richness of the soil, — the luxuriance of the crops, and the highly 
cultivated state of the lands through which the road passes, almost 
induced me to believe that I was still in the Lothians. Nor was I 
less surprised to find the high state of agriculture in some parts of 
Sutherlandshire, and not a little astonished to see the immense 
efforts which were made to improve the waste lands, and the success 
with which those efforts had been crowned, where the improve- 
ments had been completed ; but, with the means and inclinations 
which the late Duke of Sutherland possessed, there is no end to 
the improvements which may be made in the country. Leaving 
Golspie, where I was kindly met by Mr. Hood, and passing along 
the road towards Brora, by the fields which are connected with 
Dunrobin, I still found the same healthy and luxuriant state of 
vegetation which had been so conspicuous in the latter part of my 
journey : but when I had gradually emerged from the shaded and 
more sheltered parts, I had then before me a country of somewhat 
different aspect — a pretty extensive tract of flat ground, closed to 
the right by the sea, to the left by hills of considerable altitude, 
running in a south-west direction, and, before me, hills extending 
from the north-east to the south-west, — the whole enclosing a trian- 
