jg GOAT. Class T. 



The flefli is of great life to the inhabitants of the 

 country where it re fides •, and affords them a cheap 

 and plentiful provifion in the winter months, when 

 the kids are brought to market. The liaunches of 

 the goat are frequently faked and dried, and fup- 

 ply all the ufes of bacon : this by the natives is 

 called Coch yf wden^ or hung venifon. 



The meat of a fplayed goat of fix or feven years 

 old, (which is called hlyfr) is reckoned the bed; 

 being generally very fweet and fat. This makes 

 an excellent pally •, goes under the name of rock 

 venifon, and is little inferior to that of the deer. 

 Thus nature provides even on the tops of high and 

 craggy mountains, not only neceffaries, but deli- 

 cacies for the inhabitants. 



The milk of the goat is fweet, nourifhing and 

 medicinal : it is an excellent fuccedaneum for afs's 

 milk \ and has (with a tea-fpoon ful of hartfhorn 

 drank warm in bed in the morning, and at four 

 o'clock in the afternoon, and repeated for fome 

 time) been a cure for pthifical people, before they 

 were gone too far. In fome of the mountanous 

 parts of Scotland and Ireland^ the milk is made into 

 whey; which has done wonders in this and o- 

 thcr cafes, where coolers and reftoratives are necef- 

 ary : and to many of thofe places, there is a great 

 refort of patients of all ranks, as there is in England 

 to the Spaws or Baths, It is not furprizing that 

 the milk of this animal is fo falutary, as it brouzes 

 only en the tops, tendrils andflowers of the moun- 

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