ephlis01 SUMMER/FALL 2001 (THE LOST ISSUE): Part 21
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GOATS
In all regions they inhabit the most wild and inaccessible places; and yet they seem to have a stronger attachment to the human race than almost any other animals; they are playful and familiar; and it is highly probable that the goat was among the first animals that man employed in a domestic state. An instance of this is mentioned by a very accurate naturalist, relative to the wild goats of the Alps; he and his party landed on a wild and romantick spot on the bank of Thun, where those animals are numerous, and left comparatively in a state of nature; but he and his companions had no sooner landed than these wild goats came bleating about them with their kids, and even entered the boat, and resisted being driven from it. They did this too evidently from mere attachment to the travellers, because the pasture was rich, and the said travellers had nothing in the shape of food wherewithal to tempt them.
From ”The American Family Magazine of Useful Entertainment and Knowledge, Conducted by an Association of Gentlemen, and Embellished with Several Hundred Engravings.” (October, 1838)
