THE GOAT. 



Generic Characters. 

 Horns bending backward, almoft clofe at their bafe. 

 Eight cutting teeth in the lower jaw, none in the upper. 

 The male in general bearded. 



Syjstonims. 

 Capra Hircus, Linn. Syft. 94. 

 Get, Faun. Suec. No. 44. 

 Siegen bock, Siege, Klein Quad. 15. 

 Goat, Pennant's Brit. Zool. I. 29. 

 Le Bouc, La Chevre, de Bujfon, v. 59. tab. viii. 

 Brijfon Quad. 38. 



THE Goat may be confidered as a kind of auxiliary ipecies, well adapted 

 by the beneficent Creator, to fupply the abfence or imperfections of the 

 Sheep, in fuch climates and fituations as are not congenial to the 

 conliitution and habits of that ufeful animal. In like manner, the Afs is a 

 fubftitute for the Horfe, and the Llama of the Peruvian mountains for the 

 Camel. All thefe auxiliary fpecies are, however, completely dillincl:, and 

 feparated by a boundary which nature cannot exceed ; they are all wilder 

 and more hardy than their principals (a); they require lefs care, and are lefs 

 fubjecl to difeafe or accidents. 



The fprightly and active difpofition of the Goat feems well calculated to 

 adorn and enliven the gloomy mountainous wilds of nature, and to give a 

 pleating animation to thofe awful and dreary fcenes, which are inacceffible 



(a) Buffon. 



