ANIMALS OF THE 



eome to examine them closer, and observe their 

 internal conformation, no two animals can be more 

 alike ; their feet, their four stomachs, their suet, 

 their appetites, all are entirely the same, and show 

 the similitude between them ; but what makes a 

 much stronger connexion is, that they propagate 

 \ with each other. The buck goat is found to pro- 

 duce with the ewe, an animal that in two or three 

 generations returns to the sheep, and seems to 

 retain no mark of its ancient progenitor.* The 

 sheep and the goat, therefore, may be considered 

 as belonging to one family ; and were the whole 

 races reduced to one of each, they would quickly 

 replenish the earth with their kind. 



If we examine the sheep and goat internally, 

 we shall find, as was said, that their conformation 

 is entirely the same ; nor is their structure very 

 remote from that of the cow kind, which they 

 resemble in their hoofs, and in their chewing the 

 cud. Indeed all ruminant animals are internally 

 very much alike. The goat, the sheep, or the 

 deer, exhibit to the eye of the anatomist the same 

 parts in miniature which the cow or the bison ex- 

 hibited in the great : but the differences between 

 these animals are nevertheless sufficiently appa- 

 rent. Nature has obviously marked the distinc- 

 tions between the cow and the sheep kind by 

 their form and size ; and they are also distin- 

 guished from those of the deer kind by never 

 shedding their horns. Indeed the form and figure 

 of these animals, if there were nothing else, would 



* BufTon, passim. 



