with them. A peculiar Cheefe is made of their Milk 
(call’d Cafio di Cavallo') row I’d up like ftiff pieces of 
Ribbon. Out of their black fbining Horns they make 
Snuffboxes and Combs, The Creature is unruly, and 
therefore they lead them with Iron or Brafs Rings drawn 
thro’ their Nofes. They make a Buff Leather of their 
Skins. I once faw fome hairy Sheep feeding on a Com- 
mon; perhaps they had been brought from Africa . 
In palling the high Alps, I had a View of the Ibex or 
Steinbeck, whefe large Horns are recurvated almoft as 
far back as the Tail ; they are very ponderous for the 
bulk of the Animal, having many knotty Rings, that 
may help them in climbing. They are rarely taken. 
The Rupicapra or Chamois . is very common on the Tides 
of the Cliffs, whole Skins afford the foft Leather. The 
Mas Alpinus , or Marmota , is as large as a Rabbet, will 
foon grow tame inHoufes, tho J brought down from the 
Summits of the highefl Mountains, where it will grow 
fat. 
I have feen in feveral Towns of Italy frefii ffrong Por- 
cupines,' which the Inhabitants told me were taken in the 
Hedges and Ditches thereabouts, tho’ much more rare 
than our Land Urchins. In the Grifons Country, and in 
fome Cantons of Switzerland, I have often obferv’d the 
Ranunculus Viridis or fmall Tree-Frog, perching on the 
Boughs and Leaves. 
In the Northern Parts of German y I faw feveral Elk, : 
Skins, and thofe of the Rhin-Deer fluffed, and let up in 
Mufeums, but never alive : tho’ the Animals are Paid to 
.be common in Mufcovy and Lapland, and fbmetimes feen 
in the Forefls of Pruflia. 
The Skins bf Hippopotami (faid to be the Behemoth) 
are in fome Collections of Curiofties in Italy and Hol- 
land : fo are thofe of the" Musk-Deer, one of which is in 
the Hufeum of our Royal Society. 
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