$o GOAT. CUfsI, 



This pra6lice has certainly efficacy fufficient to pre- 

 vent 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 feeding. 



This quadruped contributes in various inflances to 

 the necefijties of human life; as food, as phyfick, 

 and as cloathing ; the whitefb wigs are made of its 

 hair ; for which purpofe that of the he-goat is moft 

 in requeft ; the whiteft and cleareft is feleded from 

 that which grows on the haunches, where it is longeft 

 and thickeft •, a good fkin well haired is fold for a 

 guinea j though a fkin of bad hue, and fo yellow as 

 to baffle the barber's fkill to bleach, will not fetch 

 above eighteen- pence, or two fhillings. 



The ^elcb goats are far fuperior in fize, and in 

 length and finenefs of hair, to thofe of other moun- 

 tainous countries. Their ufual color is white : thofe 

 of France and the Alps are fhort-haired, reddifh, and 

 their horns fmall. We have fcen the horns of a 

 Cambrian he-goat three feet two inches long, and 

 three feet from tip to tip. 



The fuet of the goat is in great efteem, as weli 

 as the hair. Many of the inhabitants of Caernar- 

 'Donjhire fuffer thefe animals to run wild on the rocks 

 during winter as well as fummer, and kill them 

 in G£lober^ for the fake of their fat, either by 

 Ihooting them with bullets, or running them down 

 with dogs like deer. The goats killed for this pur- 

 pofe, are about four or five years old. Their fuet 



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