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clothed with a mixture of wool and hair; anda 
fourth fpecies, whofe flefh and ficeces are yellow, 
and their teeth of the colour of gold; but the truth 
of thefe relations ought to be enquired into, as no 
other writer has mentioned them, except the cre-— 
dulous Boethius. Yet the laft particular is not to 
be rejected: for notwithftanding I cannet inftance 
the teeth of fheep, yet I faw in the fummer of 
1772, at Athel houfe, the jaws of an ox, with 
teeth thickly incrufted with a gold colored pyrites ; 
and the fame might have happened to thofe of fheep 
had they fed in the fame grounds, which were in 
the valley beneath the houfe. 
Befides the fleece, there is fcarce any part of this 
animal but what is ufeful to mankind. The flefh is 
a delicate and wholefome food. The fkin dreffed, 
forms different parts of our apparel; and is ufed 
for covers of books. The entrails, properly pre- 
pared and twifted, ferve for ftrings for various miu- 
bus arictinis; Linnaeus flyles it Capra ammon. Syft. 97. and 
Gefner, Pp. 934. imagines it to be the Mu/moz of the antients ; 
the horns of the Siderian animal are two yards long, their 
weight above thirty pounds. As we have fo good authority 
for the exiitence of fuch a quadruped, we might venture to 
give credit to Boethivs’s account, that the fame kind was once 
found in Hira: but having thrice within thefe few years had 
opportunity of examining the Mu/mmon, we found that both 
in the form of the horns, and the fhortnefs of the tail, it 
had the greateft agreement with the goat, in which gezus we 
have placed it No. 11. of our Syzop/s, with the trivial name 
of Siberiax. 
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