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herd with them In the Alfmc Paftures, and alfb return to the Cots 
I at their Dairy Houfes : Tho’ fometimes they forfake the Lower 
Paiturcs, and betake themfelves totheHighefl: Rocks, as Places 
more agreeable to their Nature. They generally wander about 
the Alps in Herds*, but not without fome Order. They have a 
Leader, whom the Huntfmen call the f^oR~GElS or Fore-Goat y, 
which Handing on fome remarkable Eminence, liftens diligently 
with ere£t Ears, whilft the red are feeding, looking about on 
alludes at the leaftnoifet And if it hears or fees any thing, it 
alarms all the relt with a kind ot VVhiflle ^ all which, .after 
twice or thrice cropping whatever they feed upon, lift up their 
Heads, and take their Flight to fome other Place. And thusthey 
never livefecurc, excepting in the Inaccefuble s,in the Win- 
ter Time, or at Night. They are no lefs caieful in preferving the 
Lives of their Kids than their own ; and therefore defend them ' 
with allpofiible Diligence from the Vultures; which when very 
Young and Tender, are apt to fnatchthem m their Claws, and 
when fomewhat Older, by beating them with their \V mgs on 
the Shells of the Rocks, to force them down Precipices, that 
they may afterwards Prey on them. They alfo take efpecial caic, 
not to bring them to any dangerous Rocks, till they have had- 
fome Experience in Climbing and Leaping. 
In. the Winter they lodge themfelves under fuch Parts of the- 
Rocks as arc hollow or (helving about the midiu of th'- Mountains, 
which fecures them from the danger of being involv’d in thofe valb 
Heaps of Snow, thatfo frequently Aide down the Alpit?e Roc-^s; 
during which time their Food is cither tne Koots of Heros, the 
Sprigs of Trees and Shrubs, or Green Herbs which the Snow had 
cover’d. The other part of the Year, they feed m Sunny Places ; 
but before Sun-riling, and after Sun fet, they ek.ier iic in thv. 
Snow, or under the Shaoows of the Rock.s. a hey who iiunc 
theft ^Beafts have a very laborious as v/ell as dangerous 1 ask; 
The high and fteep Ridges of the t^lps muft be climb’d, thro’ 
Horrid Rocks and Cliffs, to other Men inaccefTible, and over Pe- 
rennial Ice and Frozen Snow, for which reafon they walk with 
Iron Inffruments faften’d with Tongs to the Soles < f their Shoes. 
It liapnens that fometimes ftanding on a narrow Snelf Ci a ivock, 
havins/ ftarce halt the breadth of theii Feet to fnppvnt tnen\ 
they drive a Chamoife to that Pafs, that it has no ether v. ay but' 
that inoft niiTOw Parage to eCcape. in fuch an Acciden-, cit -r 
the Bead is (hot by the Huntlinan, or elfeic endeavours to make 
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