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G G; #3 Crass I, 
The fiefh is of great ufe to the inhabitants of the 
country where it refides; and affords them a cheap 
and plentiful provifion in the winter months, when 
the kids are brought to market. The haunches of 
the goat are frequently falted and dried, and fup- 
ply all the ufes of bacon: this by the natives is 
called Coch yr wden, or hung venifon. 
The meat of a fplayed goat of fix or feven years 
old, (which is called Hyfr) is reckoned the beft; 
being generaliy very {weet and fat. This makes 
an excellent pafty; goes under the name of rock 
venifon, and is little inferior to that of the deer. 
Thus nature provides even on the tops of high and 
cracoy mountains, not only neceffaries; but deli- 
cacies for the inhabitants. 
The milk of the goat is fweet, nourifhing and 
medicinal: it is an excellent fuccedaneum for afs’s 
milk; and has (with a tea-fpoon ful of hartfhorn 
drank warm in bed in the morning, and at four 
o’clock in the afternoon, and repeated for fome 
time) been a cure for pthifical people, before they 
were gone too far. In fome of the mountanous 
parts of Scotland and Ireland, the milk is made into 
whey; which has done wonders in this and o- 
ther cafes, where coolers and reftoratives are necef- 
ary: and to many of thofe places, there is a great 
refort of patients of all ranks, as there is in England 
to the Spaws or Baths. It is not furprizing that 
the milk of this animal is fo falutary, as it brouzes. 
only on the tops, tendrils andflowers of the moun- 
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