( 4 ) 

 The great horned fheep of SL Kilda^ men- 

 tioned by Boethius^ may have been the 

 MusiMON, Sy7t, quad. No. ii. 



GOAT. 



* 



r. D lueftic. Domeilic Goat, Br. Zool. I. 29, iv. tab. 99. Sy». quad.p, 



Er. He, BoCy Gaibhre. She, Gabhar. Kid, ?neann. 



HERDS of thefe animals common in 

 the highlands and iflands : cultivated 

 for their milk : invalids refort to Bunkeld^ 

 and other places, in Summer, for the fake 

 of drinking it medicinally : cheefe often 

 made of it: the fkins an article of com- 

 merce : the fiefh, in fome of the ifles, faked 

 for Winter provifion. 



DEER. 



6. Slag. Stag, Br. Zool, I. 34. Sjn. quad. No. 38. 



Er, Dafnh-feuih. hind, Eilid, agh. calf, laogk* 



FOUND in a ftate of nature over all the 

 Highlands, and in great herds : inhabits 

 alfo the ifles of Arran., 7^^^, MulU Runty 

 Skie., Harris and Lewis, Often grows to a 

 great fize: I have heard of one, killed in 

 - Braemar., that weighed 1 8 ft. Scotch, Is the 

 principal venifon of the Highlands ; lefs coarfe 



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