h, 2 . />. 21 , 
It. I. z-. 19 . 
( \ 66 , ) 
Its Hfcape by him ^ in Which cafe thebefl: Courfe he can take, is 
fo todofe up his Body to the Rock, that there be no Intermedi- 
ate Space •, fo that then the Bead: returning on the outhde, the 
i luncfmaii is fafe himfeif, and moil commonly forces the 
down the Precipice. But if it fliould perceive the lealfc vacant 
fpace, betwixt the Man and the Rock, it endeavours to enter it 
with fuch force, that the Man is thrown down Headlong. To 
fuch neccffity are thefe Men fometimes driven, that in order to 
fave their Lives by Leaping, they are obliged to take off their 
Shoes and flafo their Heels with a Knife, that their Feet being 
Bloody, may be the more Clammy, and fonot fo apt to Aide. 
It’s remarkable, that when thefe Goats are thus purfued, they 
will rather Hand ftill and expole themfelves to be foot by the 
Huntfman, than enter a orRock, as it maybe call’d, of 
Perennial Ice, crpe^-ially thefe of a Blue Colour, unlefs they foould 
be cover’d wdeh Sn 'W; by wnich means a Grifot?, not long fince, 
Aiot three of them ui the fpace of one Hour. Thefe HuntAmen 
expefo the belt Succefs when the Wind is in their Faces; for if it 
be with them they fmclb the Powder, and even Men, tho*they 
Ihouid not have any about them, at a very great diftance, which 
immediately fets them a running And indeed were it not a 
thing well known, that they excel in the Senfe of Smelling, the 
Largenefs of their Oifadlory Nerves would be a fulficient Indi- 
cation of it. 
As for that fort of T opho or Ball found in the Stomachs of thefo 
Animals, thofe that live on the Galand feldom or never have 
any of them •, which the Mountaineers attribute to the Barrennefs 
of thofe Rocks. However that the Chamoifes of one Mountain 
are much more apt to have them, than thole of another, is what 
all the Alpine Huntfmen agree in •, and it’s well known, that in 
the Northern iViOuntainsof RHlNWALDi\iz^ never have any; 
whereas thofe of the Southern, after they are three Months old, 
feldom or never want them. 
In the Year 1699, it happen’d that one of thefe Goats quitting 
its own Kind and Native Soil, which is always the Higheil AU 
pine Rocks, defeended to the Lower Paftures in the Valley of 
ENGBLBERGj and there herded among the Cows and Horles, 
nor would by any means be driven away. A Neighbouring Cha~ 
Hunter, furprizedjto hear a thing fo nnufual, gets his Gun 
and does that without any Trouble, which at other Times had 
coft him a great deal of Fatigue. A Curious Gentleman, being 
defirous 
