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femlclrcular prominences or tubercles : they are curved backwards, and terminate 

 in a fliarp extremity : the throat is commonly bearded. 



It is an animal of great ftrength and fwiftnefs, and is capable of leaping to 

 a fuprifing diftance j and, like the common goat, is often feen to hang on 

 the brinks of precipices, amongft the lofty crags which it inhabits, The horns 

 of the female are far fmaller than thofe of the male. 



The chafe of this animal is faid to be an exercife of confiderable danger, 

 as well as fatigue, and it is faid, that when clofely preffed, the animal has 

 a praftice of throwing itfelf down a precipice, and lighting on its horns, with- 

 out receiving the Icaft injury, and by this means often efcapes its purfuers. 



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