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The fuet of the goat is in great efteem, as 

 well as the hair. Many of the inhabitants of Caer- 

 narvonjhire fuffer thefe animals to run wild on the 

 rocks during winter as well as fummer \ and kill 

 them in OEloher^ for the fake of their fat, either by 

 (hooting them with bullets, or running them down 

 with dogs like deer. The goats killed for this 

 purpofe, are about four or five years old. Their 

 fuet will make candles, far fuperior in whitenefsand 

 goodnefs to thofe made from that of the fheep or 

 the ox, and accordingly brings a much greater 

 .price in the market: nor are the horns without 

 their ufe, the country people making of them ex- 

 cellent handles for tucks and penknives. The fkin 

 is peculiarly well adapted for the glove manufac- 

 tory, efpecially that of the kid : abroad it is 

 drelTed and made into (lockings, bed-ticks, bol- 

 fters*, bed-hangings, fheets, and even fhirts. In 

 the army it covers the horfeman's arms, and carries 

 the foot-foldier's provifions. As it takes a dye 

 better than any other jfkin, it was formerly much 

 ufed for hangings in the houfes of people of fortune, 

 being fufceptible of the richeft colors ♦, and when 

 flowered and ornamented with gold and filver, 

 became an elegant and fuperb furniture. 



* Bolilers made of the hair of a goat were ia ufe in the days 

 o£Saul; as appears from I. Samuel, c. 19, v. 13. The fpecics 

 very probably was the Angora goat, which is only found in the 

 Eaji, and whofe foft and filky hair fupplied a moil luxu- 

 rious couch. Vide Syn, quad. p. 15. 



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