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eminently nourishing and salubrious. The butter which it 

 yields is of a firm consistence, and nearly as white as snow. 

 The cheese has a strong and peculiar flavour, not ungrateful 

 to those who are accustomed to it. It is produced in all the 

 parts of Europe where the Goat is reared, and largely in the 

 Levant, Italy, Spain, and other countries of the Mediter- 

 ranean. 



The Ewe yields milk, but not so abundantly, freely, or for 

 so long a period, as the Goat. It is the most productive of 

 cream of any kind of milk ; but the butter which it yields is 

 of a soft consistence, leaving a fatty impression, like tallow, 

 in the mouth. The cheese has a strong stimulating flavour, 

 which increases with age. It is largely produced in some of 

 the more mountainous parts of Europe, furnishing a food 

 grateful to the people of the countries that produce it, but 

 far inferior in general estimation to the cheese of the Cow. 



At the limits, and beyond them, of the region of the 

 Goat and the Sheep, exists a creature, fitted by a boun- 

 teous Providence to subsist on the herbs of the arctic zone, 

 and yield its milk for human support, in lands of ice and snow. 

 The Reindeer inhabits the glacial regions of Europe and 

 Asia, migrating along the snowy mountains of the interior, 

 almost to the line of the Caucasus. In America, too, it i? 

 found, but with characters proper to that continent; and 

 there it is the subject of persecution by savage hunters, who 

 seem incapable of rising even to the pastoral state. But, in 

 Europe, the Reindeer has been reduced to servitude by a 

 race of men seemingly placed beyond the limits of humanized 

 society, but possessed of arts which tribes of barbarous hun- 

 ters do not acquire. The Laplanders, in scanty numbers, 

 are spread over the extreme north of Europe, occupying a 

 country of 300 miles by 500 on the Arctic Ocean. Distinct 

 in aspect, character, and speech, from the Scandinavian 

 people in contact with them, their swarthy colour, their 

 dark eyes, and black hair, indicate a southern origin ; and 

 their simple and expressive language exhibits a striking 



