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SfATURAL HISTORY. 
wet, dirt, or other injury, they are ufually 
fupported by a fmall board running upon 
wheels. 
Of the llieep kind, belide thefe, there are 
the Strepfichcros, found in Crete, and other 
iflands of the Archipelago, the Guinea fliccp, 
and the Moufflon. 
The GO A T, 
HIS animal differs moft; effentially from 
the flieep, in being covered with hair inftead 
of wool. Its chief delight is to climb the 
highefl and fleepefl precipices. They are 
neither terrified at ftorms, nor incommoded 
by rain. According to the climate, they will 
have fi’om two to five kids. Their milk is 
fweet, nutritive, and medicinal. 
The goat is found in every part of the 
world : every clime feems congenial with its 
nature : for v. hich reafon it may juftly be cal- 
led, a citizen of the world. Its age feldom 
exceeds ten or twelve years. 
'I'he Ibex, or Stone-Goat, is faid to have 
horns two yards long, which inci'eale by knots 
annurdly. 
Of the fcveral diflinft fpecies of this animal, 
there are, the Goat of Angora, Syrian Goat, 
the fmall American Goat, Blue Goat, Juda 
and Siberian Goat, and the Greenland Goat, 
The latter of which has horns an ell long. 
