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and wrinkles on their horns, which declare what their 

 age is : for according to the quantity of the wreaths, 

 fuch is the number of their years i which wreaths he 

 meweth, but not his beam, the which may be, if he be 

 an old Goaty as big as a mans leg. 



They have a great long beard, and are of a brownifh 

 gray colour very Ihaggy, having a long black lift down 

 the ridge of the back, and the track is bigger than the 

 flot of a Hart. 



'• They fawn as a Hinde or Doe in May,, and have but 

 one fawn, which they fiackle and bring up as the tame 

 Go^* doth her kid. 



They feed like Peer, onely they will eat befides ivy, 

 itiofs, and fuch-like. In fpring they make their fumets 

 round, and afterwards broad and flat, as the Hart when 

 he comes to feed well. 



They go to rut about AlhaUontide , and continue 

 therein a month or five weeks i that feafon being over, 

 i they defcend from the mountains and rocks , their 

 abode for the fummer-feafon , and herd themfelves , 

 not onely to avoid the fnow, but becaufe they can find 

 no food any longer •, and yet they come not very low, 

 but keep at the foot of the mountains, feeding there 

 till Eal\er : then they return again, every one chufing 

 fome ftrong hold in the rocks, as the Harts in .the thic- 

 kets. 



About fawning-time the females feparate from the 

 males, attending till rutting-time : in this interval they 

 will run at man or beaft, and fight as Harts doe one a- 

 mongft the other. 



When he goeth to rut, his throat and neck is much 

 bigger than ufual : he is very ftrong backt i and (which 

 ; is wonderful ) though he (hould fall from on high ten 

 ^ poles length, he will receive no harm > and will walk as 

 fecurely on the ftiarp tops of rocks, as a horfe in the 

 high- way. 



