GOAT. 
from the combined aids of this salutary and 
innocent beverage, pure air, and exercise, 
they frequently experience a return of health, 
and a renovation of constitution, after all 
other expedients have proved abortive- 
The age of the Goat is indicated by the 
teeth, and the knobs of the horns. The num- 
ber of teeth in the She-Goat is not uniform : 
they are generally fewer than those of the 
male, whose hair is also more rude, and his 
beard and horns are longer. Their excessive 
venery is a bar to their longevity, for they sel- 
dom live beyond their twelfth year. Both 
males and females, with very few exceptions, 
are furnished with horns. White Goats, 
however, without horns, are said to give most 
milk, and black Goats are esteemed the 
strongest. The mottled ones are certainly 
tlie most beautifuL 
The Goat, like the ox and sheep, has four 
stomachs, and chews the cud. It's species is 
more generally diffused than that of the sheep ; 
•Goats, every way similar to our own, being 
fouiKl in many parts of the world. They arc 
only 
