GOAT, Citic ll 
ceffive venery prevents longevity, for they feldom 
live in our climate above eleven or twelve years. 
Thefe animals with amazing {wiftnefs and fafety, 
climb up the moft rugged rocks, and afcend the — 
moft dangerous places: they can ftand unmoved 
on the higheft precipices, and fo balance their 
centre of gravity, as to fix themfelves in fuch fitu- 
ations with fecurity and firmnefs; fo that we feldom 
hear of their falling, or breaking their necks. 
When two are yoked together, as is frequently 
practifed, they will, as if by confent, take large and 
hazardous leaps; yet fo well time their mutual ef- 
forts, as rarely to mifcarry in the attempt. 
The origin of the domeftic goat is the Stein- - 
boc, Ibex or wild goat, Syn. quad. No. g. a fpecies 
now found only in the ps, and in Crete. 
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