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evil. We have been informed, that there is a 
freeholder in the parifh of Traw/vynnyd, in Me- 
rionethfbire, who hath, for feveral years paft, broke 
the teeth of his goats fhort off with a pair of 
pincers, to preferve his trees. This practice has 
certainly efficacy fufficient to prevent the mifchief, 
and may be recommended to thofe who keep them 
for their fingularity ; but ought by no means to be 
encouraged, when thofe animals are preferved for 
the fake of their milk, as the great falubrity of 
that medicine arifes from their promifcuous feed-. 
ing. 
This quadruped contributes in various inftances 
to the neceffities of human life; as food, as phy- 
fick, and as cloathing: the whiteft wigs are made 
of its hair; for which purpofe that of the he-goat 
is moft in requeft, the whiteft and cleareft is-felec- 
ted from that which grows on the haunches, where 
it is longeft and thickeft, a good fkin well hair- 
ed is fold for a guinea; though a fkin of bad hue, 
and fo yellow as to baffle the barber’s fkill to bleach, 
~vill not fetch above eighteen-pence, or two fhil- 
lings. 
The Welch coats are far fuperior in fize, and in 
length and fineneds of hair, to thofe of other moun- 
tanous countries. Their ufual color is white: thofe 
of France and the As are fhort-haired, reddifh, 
and their horns fmall. We have feen the horns of 
a Cambrian he-goat three feet two inches long, and 
three feet from tip to tip. 
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