3^ GOAT. Class I. 



evil. We have been informed, that there is a 

 freeholder in the parifli of Trawfvynnyd^ in Me- 

 rioneth/hire^ who hath, for feveral years pad, broke 

 the teeth of his goats fhort off with a pair of 

 pincers, to preferve his trees. This pradlice has 

 certainly efficacy fufficient to prevent the mifchief, 

 and may be recommended to thofe who keep them 

 for their Angularity ; but ought by no means to be 

 encouraged, when thofe animals are preferved for 

 the fake of their milk, as the great falubrrty of 

 that medicine arifes from their promifcuous feed- 



ing. 



This quadruped contributes in various inftances 

 to the neceffities of human life ; as food, as phy- 

 fick, and as cloathing : the whiteft wigs are made 

 of its hair ; for which purpofe that of the he-goat 

 is mod in requeft •, the whiteft and cleared is felec- 

 ted from that which grows on the haunches, where 

 it is longed and thicked •, a good fkin well hair- 

 ed is fold for a guinea •, though a fkin of bad hue, 

 and fo yellow as to baffle the barber's fkill to bleachj^ 

 will not fetch above eighteen-pence, or two fhil- 

 lings. 



The TFelch goats are far fuperior in fize, and in 

 length and finenefs of hair, to thofe of other moun- 

 tanous countries. Their ufual color is white: thofe 

 of France 2iT\6. the Alps are fhort- haired, reddifh, 

 and their horns fmall. We have fcen the horns of 

 a Cambrian he- goat three feet two inches long, and 

 three feet from tip to tip. 



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