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(Kould be attended to. The male (liould have a Urge body, 

 with long hair, and ftraight lliff legs, the neck (honld be 

 plain and fliort, the head taall and (lender, the horns large, 

 the eyes prominen,t, and the beard long. 



The female ought to haw a large udder with well 

 fized teats, and witli none or very fmall horns. 



Goats are bed kept in flocks, in order that they may 

 have tiie lefs difpol'ition to ilragglt ; and they fliould have 

 -rood (lielter both for fiiiimier and winter, great hc«t and 

 i-iold being equally injuuloi'.s to them. 



The period of coupling them is about December. 



'J'liey art- moilly kept without litter in the winter feafon, 

 In clean paved yards or other places. 



The kids may be prepared for the tabic in a 

 nianner fimilar in iome degree to that of the lamb. 

 " They have been vulgarly fiippofed ufeful in ilables from 

 the difagrceable odour that iffues from the males at parti- 

 cular feafons, but there are probably no real grounds for 

 fuch a conclufion. 



Go\T-J!jh. Cnpnfcus, in Ichthyography, the name of a 

 fidi. called" alfo by fou>p caper. It" is a fpecics of Ballistes. 

 In the middle of its back it has three very ilrong and 

 large prickles, the firft of which is three times as large 

 as any of the others, and all are connertcd by a mem- 

 brane. 



The whole filli is covered with a fcaly_ (l<in ; but the 

 fcales have more the appearance of thofe of a ferpent than 

 thofe of the fifh ; for they are placed in cancellated lines in- 

 terfefting one another, and are fo well lixed, that they 

 with difficulty come off ; and wood or ivory may be polifli- 

 ed with the flvin, as with the common fith-lkin ufed by 

 the turners, &c. It is of a blueilh-green colo'jr, fpotted 

 with a fine blue, and the back and belly fins are black, with 

 fome blue and red fpots. Its whole figure is very broad 

 and flat, as well as thort, fo that it approaches to a round 

 form. It feldom exceeds two pounds in weight. It is 

 caun-ht in the Mediterranean, but not commonly. The 

 fkin of it is frequently found in the cabinets of the cu- 

 riqus. 



Goat IJlands, in Geography, two fmall iflands near the 

 S. coall of Jamaica, they are "denominated Grco/ and Little ; 

 the former is fituated in N. lat. 17- 53'. E. long. 76° 51'; 

 and the latter about a mile N. W. from it. 



Goat IJlarJ, the fouthernmoft of the Bafhee iflands, in 



the Eaft Indian fca. N. lat. 20' 6'. E. long. 121 Alfo, 



a fmall illand among the Philippines, near the S. W. coall 

 of Lui;on. N. lat. 13^ 52'. E. long. I20- 13'. — Alfo, a 

 firall illot of America, in the tiate of Rhode illand, op- 

 pofite to the town of Newport, and on which is Fort 

 Wafhington. 



Goat's Beard, in Botany. See Tragopocon. 



Goat'.s Eye, in Surgery. Sec Eye. 



Goat'.s Horns, pelr'ifiid. In Dr. Grew's " Rarities of Gre- 

 fham College," p. 257, aTephrite.s boctii, or goat's horn, in 

 that colle^flion, is defcribed as broken at both ends, about 

 fw inches long, and 2 4 inches acrofs at the broadell part, 

 tlie beUy an inch over and furrowed, the back fomewhat 

 edged, of an afhen colour, inwardly blueifh grey, outwardly 

 mixed with oblique and white itreaks, bended, one end 

 t flicker than the other : it is added, that fuch are found in 

 Germany, Moravia, Silefia and other parts, and cfFervefce 

 with nitric acid. 



In the Analyfis of the Labours of the French national In- 

 ftitute for 1809, it is mentioned that M. Cuvier in the 

 alluvial foils near Etampes had difcovered horns, fome of 

 which do not feem to differ efTentially from the horns of 

 <he exifting fpecies of goats. The evidence in neither of 



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the above cafes, or any other which we have feen, is fufH- 

 ciently ilrong to prove the foffil horns of this clafs to have 

 really belonged to goats : and analogy would juflify us 

 rather, in referring them to the extintl race of animals, 

 fifh, and vegetables with which llie flrata are fo abundantly 

 ftored, in fome parts of the fcrics. 



Goat's /?«f. SeeG\Li:ci.\. 



Go.\T, Scape. Sec Sf\PE-GoAT. 



Go.vt's Sucicr. Sec Capiu.mui.gus. 



Go.\t'.s Stones, greater. See S.\TYniVM. 



Goat's Stones, lejfer. See Oiunis. 



Goat's Thorn. See Astiiagalus. 



GOATI'TELD, in Geography, a mountain of Scotland, 

 in tlie idand of Arran ; the fummit of which is 2840 feet 

 above the level of the fca. 



GOAVE, GiiAXD, a town of the illaiid of Hifpaniola j 

 10 miles S.W. of Leogane. 



Go.WK, Petit, a lea-port town of the ifland c>f Hifpa- 

 niola, with a harbour capable of receiving velfelo of the 

 largeft fize fiife from winds ; in its environs are plantations 

 of fugar, coffee, indigo, and cotton. The town is tlie 

 emporium to which the inhabitants of Grand Goave, and 

 other places, fend their commodities ; 20 miles W.^.W. of 

 Leogane. N. lat'. 18° 26'. W. long. 73"" 37'. 



GO BAN, a town of Perfia, in the province of Chufiftan ; 

 75 miles S. of Suiter. 



GoD.VN', or Gel/an, a fmall ifland in the moutii of the 

 Euphrates, or Shat el Arab, at tlie entrance into the gulf 

 of Perfia, with a town upon it; 50 miles E.S.E. of 

 Bafibra. N. lat. 30° 10'. E. long. 4S 25 . 



GOBANNIUM, in J.icient Geography, a town of Bri- 

 tain, placed in Antonine's Itinerary between Btirrium or 

 Ullc, and Magnis or KencheCer, 12 miles from the former 

 and 22 from the latter, and fiippofcd to be Abergavenny, 

 which fee. 



GOBBI, in GeograpJ.y, a country of Africa, between 

 that of Camma, and cape Lopez Gonfalvo ; the chief 

 trade of which confifts in elephants and ivory. The chief 

 town is about a day's journey diftant from the Atlantic. 

 N. lat. r 30'. See Camma. 



GOBBINS, in Mining, is a name with the colliers of 

 feveral dillritts for the hole-ing fluff and other refufe of 

 their works; ?s alfo for the hollows or Ipaces behind them, 

 into which they throw the refufe coal, earth, and flones ; 

 which hift are alfo called wafles and old-hollows. 



In the coal-pits about Wedncfbury in Staffordfhire, and 

 at Doniilhorp, Danby-Hall, &c. in Derbylhire, the gob- 

 bins take fire fpoiitaneoufly after fome time, unlefs the air 

 is excluded from them, owing to duns, tow, tawe or cat- 

 dirt, a thin ftratum found near the coal, which heats, fwells, 

 and fpoiitaneoufly inflames, by the contaft of air and moif- 

 ture. At Doniilhorp they encafc their gobbins in walls of 

 tempered clay at certain dift.mces, for excluding the air. 



GOBBS, otherwife Collies, are pieces of coal from the 

 fize of walnuts to that of a man's fill or larger, which are 

 occafionally picked or raked out of the fleck or refufe 

 fmall coals at the collieries, either by ;/0or perfons, who are 

 allowed to do fo, or for fale. Thefe are what in London, 

 and many places in the eaff and fouth of England, would 

 be called round-coals and highly valued, on account of the 

 abfence of very fmall or dufl coals among them. Where 

 the rage among the buyers and dealers is for large coals, 

 as about Wednefbury in Staffordfhire, and the Erevvafh vale 

 in Derbyfhire and Nottingliamfliire, an inconceivable w-afle 

 is made of cobbles and fleck ; in working the thick coal 

 about Wednefoury aheap of fuch, fix or feven yards tkick, 

 is faid to be left and walled on the floor of their works : 



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