i8 Q_U ADRUPEDS. 



Thefe are regarded as the only real varieties of the cow kind ; others 

 have been fuppofed by naturalifts to (o many as eight or ten fpecies j 

 but after proper allowances for climate, pafture, &c. there feems no 

 need to confider others, as permanently or eflentially different. Some 

 are faid to grunt like a hog, others to fmell of mufk. In Surat, a 

 fmall kind, not bigger than a dog, draw the children in carts. 



OF THE 



SHEEP AND GOAT. 



THE goat and the fheep differ, in the form of their bodies, their 

 covering, and their horns ; and may be confidered as two kinds, 

 with regard to domeftic purpofes j but their internal conformation is 

 alike j their feet, their four ftomachs, their fuet, their appetites, are 

 the fame j and they propagate with each other. The produce of the 

 buck goat with the ewe in two or three generations returns to the 

 Iheep, The flieep and the goat, therefore, belong to one fam.ily ; and 

 •were their races reduced to one of each, they would replenifh the 

 earth with their kinds. 



Their internal ftrufture is not very remote from that of the cow 

 kind, which they refemble in their hoofs, and in chewing the cud. 

 But tfce differences between thefe animals are fufficiently apparent by their 

 form and fize ; they are alfo diftinguiflied from deer, by never fhedding 

 their horns, which draws a line between the kinds j fo that we may 

 regard the Iheep and goat as ruminant animals of a fmaller fize, having 

 permanent horns. 



Thefe harmlefs and ufcful animals have been long reclaimed from 

 the forefl:, and brought into a ftate of domefticity. The fheep is the 

 more ferviceable creature in moft places ; but the goat has more fenfi- 

 bility and attachment. In the earlieft ages, the goat feemed rather the 

 greater favourite j and continues fuch, in fome countries, among the 

 poor. But the fheep has long become the principal objedt of human 

 care ; efpecially in our country and climate. 



The Iheep, in its prefent domeftic ftate, is of all animals the moft: 

 defencelcfs and inoffenfive ; and, if expofed in its prefent ftate to 

 ftruggle with its natural enemies of the foreft, would foon be extirpated. 



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