THE CHAMOIS GOAT. 



Generic Characters. 

 Horns flender, erecl:, and hooked. 



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

 Hoofs Ihort and much divided. 



Synonims. 



Rupicapra, Plin. lib. viii. c. 15. Gefner Quad. 290. Rati Syn. 



Quad. 78. Scheuchzer. It. Alp. i. 155. &c. 

 Capra rupicapra. C. Cornibus erectis uncinatis, Linn. Syji. 95, 

 Chamois ou Ysard, Belon Obf. 54. 



Ysarus ou Sarris, Gafion de Foix, 99. Briffon Quad. 41. de Buff on, 



xii. 130. tab. xvi. 

 Gemse, Klein Quad, 18. Ridinger Kleine Thiere^o. 72. 

 Antilope rupicapra, Pallas Mifcel. 4. Spicil xii. 12. 



TRAVELLERS, who have beheld the fublime and piclurefque fcenery of 

 Dauphine, Swiuerland, Italy, Greece, Crete, the Sierra de Ronda, the 

 Pyrenean mountains, and thofe of Taurus and Caucafus, have generally 

 fpoken of the Chamois Goat with that peculiar warmth of exprefhon which 

 refults from the contemplation of fome pleafmg and favourite objed;. It 

 may, indeed, be naturally fuppofed that, while the eye wanders over a fine 

 extent of mountainous country, or refts in altonimment on the declivity of 

 fome lofty eminence, the fight of this beautiful quadruped, bounding over 

 the mismapen rocks, pafBng through the trees with incredible fwiftnefs, or 

 hastening to quench its tbirffc at the cryftal ftreamlet, mull infpire the 

 fufceptible heart with delight and admiration. 



