GOAT, 
defective ; and, in a domestic state, they are as 
much as possible restrained till about eighteen 
months. 
The colour of these animals varies ex- 
tremely ; and the hair is in some long and 
rough, but in others smooth and short. The 
He-Goat is a beautiful, vigorous, and ardent 
animal; and, in the course of two or three 
months, sufficient to impregnate a hundred 
and fifty females. But this ardour, which 
brings on a speedy decay, continues only three 
or four years ; and, at the age of five or six, 
he becomes old and enervated. The female 
continues fertile till seven. She is in season 
during the months of September, October, 
and November ; but, if allowed to approach 
the male, willingly receives him, and is capable 
of producing, at all times of the vear. She 
holds, however, much surer in autumn ; and 
the months of 06lober and November are pre- 
ferred, because the > oung kids are brought 
forth when the herbag^^ is tender. The period 
of gestation is full five months ; the kids 
being delivered in the beginning of the sixth. 
They suck only a month or six weeks. 
The 
