COAT. 
only smaller in Guinea, and other warm cli- 
mates, and larger in Muscovy, and other 
northern regions. The Goat, however, was 
not a native of the new world, having been 
mtroduced there by the original discoverers : the 
Americans, indeed, were unacquainted with all 
our domestic animals ; such as. Goats, sheep, 
hogs, cows, and horses. The increase of 
these creatures in every part of that continent, 
especially it's southern division, is really pro- 
digious : but, in the rigorous climate of Ca- 
nada, the Goat is too delicate to perpetuate it's 
race ; so that new supplies are obliged to be 
annually imported, in order to prevent it's ex- 
tinction, 
Pontoppidon, in his Natural History of 
Norway, informs us that, from the port of 
Bereen alone, so numerous are Goats in that 
country, eighty thousand raw hides are annu- 
ally exported. 
