Crass I. G OF} DAD. EB: 
The fuet of the goat is in great efteem, as 
well as the hair. Many of the inhabitants of Caer- 
narvonfhire faffer thefe animals to run wild on the 
rocks during winter as well as fummer; and kill 
them in OZfober, for the fake of their fat, either by 
fhooting them with bullets, or running them down 
with dogs like deer. The goats killed for this 
purpofe, are about four or five years old. Their 
fuet will make candles, far fuperior in whitenefs and 
soodnefs to thofe made from that of the fheep or 
the ox, and accordingly brings a much greater 
price in the market: nor are the horns without 
their ufe, the country people making of them ex- 
cellent handles for tucks and penknives. The fkin 
is peculiarly well adapted for the glove manufac- 
tory, efpecially that of the kid: abroad it is 
drefled and made into ftockings, bed-ticks, bol- 
fters*, bed-hangines, fheets, and even fhirts. In 
the army it covers the horfeman’s arms, and carries 
the foot-foldier’s provifions. As it takes a dye 
better than any other fkin, it was formerly much 
ufed for hangings in the houfes of people of fortune, 
being fufceptible of the richeft colors; and when 
flowered and ornamented with gold and filver, 
became an elegant and fuperb furniture. 
* Bolfters made of the hair of a goat were in ufe in the days 
of Saul; as appears from I, Samuel, c. 19. v. 13. The fpecies 
very probably was the Angora goat, which is only found in the 
Eaft, and whofe foft and filky hair fupplied a mot luxu- 
rious couch. Vide Syn. quad. p. 15. 
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