HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



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The Ibex inhabits the highest Alps of the Grisons 

 country and the Valais, and is also found in Crete : 

 they are very wild, and difficult to be shot ; and as 

 they always keep on the highest points of the rocks, 

 the chase of them is attended with great danger : 

 they are very strong, and often turn upon the in- 

 cautious huntsman, and tumble him down the preci- 

 pice, unless he have time to lie down, and let the 

 animal pass, over him. They bring forth one young 

 at a time, seldom two; and are said not to be long- 

 lived. 



THE CHAMOIS GOAT. 



(Capra Rupicapra, Linn. Ysarus ou Sam's, Buff.) 



THE Chamois, though a wild animal, is very easily 

 made tame and docile. It is to be found only in 

 rocky and mountainous places ; is about the size of 

 the domestic Goat, and resembles it in many re- 



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