NATURAL HISTORY. a5 
of wool on their tails, that Pennant fays, fome have 
been known to weigh fifty pounds; to preferve which 
from wet, dirt, or other injury, they are ufually fup- 
ported by a {mall board running upon wheels. 
Of the fheep kind, befide thefe, there are the Strep- 
ficheros, found in Crete, and other iflands of the Ar- 
chipelago, the Guinea fheep, and the Mouffion. 
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GOAT. 
Tuts animal differs moft effentially from the fheep, 
in being covered with hair inftead of wool. Its chief 
delight is to climb the higheft and fteepeft precipices. 
They are neither terrified at ftorms, nor incommoded 
by rain. According to the climate, they will have 
from two to five kids. Their milk is fweet, nutritive 
and medicinal. 
The goat is found in every part of the world: Eve- 
ry clime feems congenial with its nature: For which 
reafon it may juftly be called a citizen of the world. 
Its age feldom exceeds ten or twelve years. 
The Ibex, or Stone Goat, is faid.to have horns two 
yards long, which increafe by knots annually. 
Of the feveral diftin¢ét {pecies of this animal, there 
are, the Goat of Angora, Syrian Goat, the {mall A- 
merican Goat, Blue Goat, Juda and Siberian Goat, 
and the Greenland Goat, the latter of which has horns 
an ell long. | 
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CAMELOPARD. 
‘Tue camelopard fomewhat refembles the deer in 
form, without its fymmetry. It has been found eigh- 
teen feet high, and ien from the ground to the top of 
