44 GOAT. Class I. 



in length and fineness of hair, to those of other 

 mountanous countries. Their usual color is 

 white : those of France and of the Alps are 

 short-haired, reddish, and their horns small. We 

 have seen the horns of a Cambrian he-goat 

 three feet two inches long, and measuring three 

 feet from tip to tip. 



The suet of the goat is in great esteem, as 

 well as the hair. Many of the inhabitants of 

 Caernarvonshire suffer these animals to run 

 wild on the rocks during winter as well as sum- 

 mer, and kill them in October, for the sake of 

 their fat, either by shooting them with bullets, 

 or running them down with dogs like deer. 

 The goats killed for this purpose, are about 

 four or five years old. Their suet will make 

 candles, far superior in whiteness and goodness 

 to those made from that of the sheep or the ox, 

 and accordingly brings a much greater price in 

 the market : nor are the horns without their use, 

 the country people making of them' excellent 

 handles for tucks and penknives. The skin is 

 peculiarly well adapted for the glove manufac- 

 tory, especially that of the kid : abroad it is 

 dressed and made into stockings, bed-ticks, 

 bolsters,* bed-hangings, sheets, and even shirts. 



* Bolsters made of the hair of a goat were in use in the days 

 of Saul; as appears from 1 Samuel, c. 1Q. v. 13. The species 



