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Quadrupeds. 
The flesh is considered a savoury food, and the skin is 
wrought into a soft pliable leather, well known in do- 
mestic economy. 
The Chamois is found only in the mountainous regions 
of Europe, where they herd together on lofty and almost 
inaccessible cliffs and precipices. They are so acute 
and shy. that it is only by the greatest patience and skill 
that the hunter can approach near enough to shoot them ; 
and they are so swift, and leap with such extraordinary 
sureness of foot, that to overtake them is impossible. 
" But beasts have reason too, 
And that we know, we men that hunt the Chamois, 
They never turn to feed — sagacious creatures — 
Till they have placed a sentinel a-head, 
Who pricks his ears whenever we approach, 
And gives alarm with, clear and piercing pipe." 
Schiller's William Tell. 
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THE NYL GHAU, OR BLUE OX. (Antilope pkta.) 
This is a large kind of antelope, found in India. In the 
