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regard to their ways, it appears to me, as I have said 

 before, that durinor the two warm months in Kam- 

 chatka they betake themselves to the highest ground 

 and adopt the habits of wikl goats, living in the 

 tightest rocks, unlike wild sheep in the other parts of 



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the world, that rely more on their sight for safety, and 

 prefer rolling hills. Whether this peculiarity be due 

 to natural inclination, or to a legitimate horror of 

 mosquitoes, it is difficult to say ; their tracks seemed 

 more numerous alono- the ridores than on the lower 

 pastures. How they can survive the severe winter 

 months of that northern climate, and find shelter or 



