THE GOAT. 
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fiiiifests a stronger inclination for liberty 
delicacy of food. Hence it is pecu- 
y valuable to the inhabitants of wild and 
ainous countries, where it finds an ample 
PP y of the spontaneous productions of na- 
ture in • • 
‘H situations inaccessible to most other 
J'^P^ds. It climbs the loftiest rocks and 
an s secure on the brink of the most abrupt 
pices. In 
mountainous countries goats 
led^ ®®cn walking along the narrowest 
^cs . and, if two meet in a place where 
do turn, it is said that one will lie 
lj^''^^.''drile the other jumps over his back, 
obs ** ^mrner two of these stragglers were 
ea ^ number of spectators to pass 
of upon the rampart of the citadel 
Tr • y’^^nth, which overhangs the beach. 
teet are admirably adapted by nature 
Und^^^^^ situations, the hoof being hollowed 
'Ueatli, and having sharp edges 
resem- 
