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VARIOUS GOATS, 
our climate. Perhaps some patriot may one day 
make the experiment. 
Various goats. 
Syria affords a peculiar variety of the goat; with 
large pendulous ears,, and short black horns. The 
ears are usually between one and two feet in length, 
and sometimes so troublesome to the animal, that 
the owners find it proper to cut off one of them for 
its convenience. This goat is rather larger in size 
than our common domestic goat ; its hair is 
usually yellow. This variety abounds through the 
east, and is found also among the Kirghisian Tar- 
tars. The city of Aleppo is plentifully supplied 
with their milk. They appear, from the rela- 
tion of Aristotle, to have been known to the 
ancients. 
Africa affords a variety of the goat, distinguish- 
ed chiefly by their dwarfish size. The horns of 
the male are short, thick, and triangular, and lie 
fiat upon the skull ; he is covered with rough hair * 
and two long hairy wattles hang beneath his chin. 
The female has smaller horns, a smooth coat, and 
no wattles. 
Whidaw, or Juda, in Africa, breeds a peculiar 
variety, of a small size, with short smooth horns, 
turning' a little forwards at the points. Some 
natural historians represent this animal as a native 
of America ; others strenuously contend, that nei- 
ther the goat nor any other domestic animal was 
known in America before its discovery by the 
Spaniards. It would be difficult to decide in the 
case. This goat is not confined to TVidaw; but 
common also in Guinea, Angola, and some other 
parts of Africa. 
The Capricorn is another variety ; the charac** 
