MAMMALIA—GOAT. 37h 
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 back 
~ 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, 
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ani 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- 
