CABINET. 



Hunting the argoii. 



creeps cautiously within reach, and brings them 

 down with his gun or arrows. 



The Kamtschadales da not shear these sheep, 

 hut leave the wool on till the end of Mav, when 

 it becomes loose, and is stripped entirely ofV in 

 one fleece. Mr. Pennant observes, that the 

 dried flesh: constitutes an article of commerce. 



THE COMMON GOAT. 



THIS lively and playful quadruped claims the 

 next place to the sheep in the scale of creation, 

 and in a variety of instances it seems nearly 

 allied to that serviceable animal ; but it is much 

 more hardy, and in every respect better adapted 

 for a life of liberty. It is easily domesticated - T 

 being sensible of caresses, and capable of a con- 

 siderable degree of attachment. The incon- 

 stancy of its disposition, however, is strongly 

 marked by the irregularity of all its actions: it 

 walks, stops short, runs, leaps, approaches or re- 

 tires, shows or conceals itself, or flies off as if ac- 

 tuated by mere caprice, and without any other 

 cause than what results from eccentric vivaciu 

 of temper. 



It prefers the uncultivated heath or the shrubby 

 rock to the more luxuriant mead or plain ; it de- 

 lights in climbing the most inaccessible preci- 

 pices, and is often seen suspended upon to emi- 



