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GOAT. Class I. 



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 efforts, as 

 rarely to miscarry in the attempt. 



The origin of the domestic goat may be de- 

 rived from the Steinboc, Ibex or wild goat,* now 

 found only in the Alps and in Crete, and also 

 from the Caucasan goat,-j" which inhabits the 

 loftiest and most rude points of Caucasus, the 

 inhospitable hills of Laar and Klnorazan 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. \5> f lb. No. 1(5. 



