. A System of natural history : containing scientifci [sic] and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . cies is more diffused than the sheep;and goats, like the European, are found in several parts of the world; onlyin Guinea and other warm countries they are smaller, but in Muscovy andoiher cold climates they are larger. ROCKY MOUNTAIN This animal inhabits the most lofty peaks of the Rocky Mountains, sel-dom descending so near the low country as. the Rocky Mountain manners are said to resemble greatly those of the domestic exa
. A System of natural history : containing scientifci [sic] and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . cies is more diffused than the sheep;and goats, like the European, are found in several parts of the world; onlyin Guinea and other warm countries they are smaller, but in Muscovy andoiher cold climates they are larger. ROCKY MOUNTAIN This animal inhabits the most lofty peaks of the Rocky Mountains, sel-dom descending so near the low country as. the Rocky Mountain manners are said to resemble greatly those of the domestic exact limits of the range of this animal have not been ascertained,but it probably extends from the fortieth to the sixty-fourth, or sixty-fifth Capra montana, Obd. MAMMALIA—GOAT. 371 degree of latitude. It is common on the elevated part of the range thatgives origin to the Mackenzie, Columbia, Nelson, and Missouri fine wool which the animal produces, grows principally on the hackand hips, and is intermixed with long coarse hair. From the circumstanceof its bearing wool, it has occasionally been termed a sheep by the voyagers,. and even by naturalists. Some little confusion has, therefore, crept intothe accounts of its habits, which have been published from the reportsof traders. Its flesh is hard and dry, and is little esteemed. The Indiansmake caps and saddles of its skin. The Hudsons Bay company have verylately presented a perfect specimen of the goat to the Zoological animal is of the size of the domestic sheep, and is totally white, exceptthe horns, hoofs, lips, and margins of the nostrils. The horns are blackand shining. THE ANGORA GOAT Is found in Natolia in Asia Minor. It is distinguished from the Europeangoat, by the greater size of its ears, though it is only a variety of the samespecies; they mix and produce together, even in our climate. The maleshave horns almost as long as the common goat, but the circumference anddirections are very differe
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