THE GOAT. 33 
lierself. He informs us that in 1780 he 
a foal which had lost its dam thus nou- 
rel ^ S^at, which was placed on a bar- 
® ’ that the foal might suck more conveni- 
ently, 'pi^g followed its nurse to pasture, 
® if she had been its mother, and was at- 
ued with the greatest care by the goat, 
ich Would call it hack by her bleating when- 
it Wandered to any distance from her. 
he varieties of the goat are almost as nu- 
as those of the sheep. They differ in 
^^giird to colour, hair, horns, or ears ; but 
^ are only accidental diversities, produced 
^^J^^^niate and food, which sometimes give to 
enc same animal an apparent differ- 
do though the internal structure 
jg not vary. Thus the Syrian goat, which 
^iii'gor than ours, has broad ears of 
dow ns in some individuals to hang 
are ^ nearly to the ground, while the horns 
n not above two inches and a half long. It 
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