4S GOAT. Class L 



breaking their necks, or falling. When two are 

 yoked together, as is frequently practised, they 

 ■will, as if by consent, take large and hazardous 

 leaps, yet so well time their mutual eftbrts, as 

 rarely to miscarry in the attempt. 



The origin of the domestic goat may be de- 

 rived from the Ste'mboc, Ibe.v or w ild goat,* now 

 found only in the Alps and in Crete, and also 

 from the Caucasan goatjf w^hich inhabits the 

 loftiest and most rude points of Caucasus, the 

 inhospitable hills of Laar and Khorazan in 

 Persia, and, according to Monardus, is also 

 found in Africa ; it may likewise have formerly 

 been a native of the Alps and of Crete. 



* Hist. quad. No. 14?^ f Ih. No. iQ. 



