GOAT. 
however, except in warm climates, where 
mutton is always ill tasted, must certainly be 
considered, on the whole, as very inferior to 
that of the sheep; and, were it only for the 
injury which the Goat does to young planta- 
tions, by it's cropping the tender boughs, and 
destroying the bark of young trees, it will 
hardly ever be in any great degree drawn 
from it's beloved rocks and mountains, in the 
cultivated countries of Europe. Yet, on va- 
rious occasfons, this animal contributes to the 
necessities of human life. It's hair, and skin, 
are used in several manufa61:ures ; it's horns 
are made into the hafts of various instruments; 
and it's tallow h superior to that of the sheep- 
or ox. The value of the flesh, and milk, are- 
well known; the latter, in consumptive ha- 
bits, being esteemed an excellent succedaneum 
for asses milk, and by some it is even pre- 
ferred. In many of the mountainous parts of 
Ireland and Scotland, as well as in Wales, 
this milk, turned into whev, has been found 
surprisingly efficacious, bv convalescnts, 
where coolers and restoratives were necessary. 
To several of those places, during the proper 
season, such patients generally resort; and, 
from 
