Glafs I. GOAT. ^% 



will make candles, far fuperior in whitenefs and 

 croodnefs to thofe made from that of the fiieep 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 excellent handles for 

 tucks and penknives. The ikin is peculiarly well 

 adapted for the glove manufadory, efpecially that of 

 the kid : abroad it is drefled and made into (lockings, 

 bed-ticks, bolfters, * bed-hangings, fneets, and even 

 fhirts. In the army it covers the horfeman's arms, 

 and carries the foot foldiers 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. 



The fiefh is of great ufe to the inhabitants of the 

 country where it re fides •, 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 faked and dried, and fupplv 

 all the ufcs 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 be ft ', be- 

 ing generally very fweet 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 



* Bolfters made of the hair of a goat were in ufe in the days of 

 Saul;,zs appears from 1. Samuel, c. 19. v. 13, The fptcies verv 

 probably was that now called the angora goat, which is orly found 

 in the Eaji; and whofe foft and fiiky hair fupplied a raolt luxuri- 

 ous couch. 



provides 



