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and a half per day. Thefe, if introduced into our navy, 

 might be of infinite fervice in long voyages. 



Experiments of this kind would certainly be attended 

 with many great advantages ; and it were much to be 

 wifhed, that the great and opulent would employ fome 

 portion of their time and affluence in procuring, from 

 diftant countries, fuch ufeful animals as would propagate 



in our ifland, and are yet unknown in it. By this 



means, many of our lofty mountains might contribute 

 to fupport a variety of ufeful creatures, that would, at 

 the fame time, beautify the mo ft barren and rugged parts 

 of our country. 



The Syrian GOAT, 



which M. Buffon makes a variety of the Goat of Angora, 

 differs from ours in nothing more than the length of its 

 ears, which are pendulous, and from one to two feet 

 long: They are often troublefome to the creature in 

 feeding; for which reafon, the owners are fometimes 



