MAMMALIA— GOAT. 



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degree of latitude. It is common on the elevated part of the range that 

 gives origin to the Mackenzie, Columbia, Nelson, and Missouri rivers. 

 The fine wool which the animal produces, grows principally on the hack 

 and hips, and is intermixed with long coarse hair. From the circumstance 

 of its bearing wool, it has occasionally been termed a sheep by the voyagers, 



and even by naturalists. Some little confusion has, therefore, crept into 

 the accounts of its habits, which have been published from the reports 

 of traders. Its flesh is hard and dry, and is little esteemed. The Indians 

 make caps and saddles of its skin. The Hudson's Bay company have very 

 lately presented a perfect specimen of the goat to the Zoological Society. 

 This animal is of the size of the domestic sheep, and is totally white, except 

 the horns, hoofs, lips, and margins of the nostrils. The horns are black 

 and shining. 



THE ANGORA GOAT 



Is found in Natolia in Asia Minor. It is distinguished from the European 

 goat, by the greater size of its ears, though it is only a variety of the same 

 species ; they mix and produce together, even in our climate. The males 

 have horns almost as long as the common goat, but the circumference and 

 directions are very different, and they are of a dazzling white color ; they 

 are extended horizontally on each side of the head, and form spirals, some- 



