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often exhibited by the Romans in the arena in herds of a hundred or more ; but 

 these goats increase slowly, and in course of time have become almost exterminated 

 by being constantly hunted. When they inhabited the lowlands, the climate was 

 probably much colder than at the present day. In the fifteenth century ibex were 







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fairly common in Switzerland: but it is definitely known from the record of Conrad 

 Gesner that in his time (sixteenth century) they belonged only to the wildest 

 Alpine regions, and in 1550 the last survivor was killed in the canton of Glarus. 

 In Graubiinden they had been destroyed long before : but previous to this they 

 were often tamed by the peasants, and abounded in the mountains of the Upper 



