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Identifier: centurydictionary01whit Title: The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. Year: 1897 (1890s) Authors: Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894 Smith, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Eli), 1857-1913 Subjects: English language Atlases Biography Encyclopedias and dictionaries Publisher: New York : The Century Co. Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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Text Appearing After Image: Wild Goat (Cafra ir^a^nts). JJireitJt cegagnisoli. E. Gray. .T. V. Brandt asserts thatthis is incontestably and exclusively the source of the do-mestic gnat. In fact, the name a^ja<jtitt may have beenapplied sometimes to goats run wild, and the Capra aga-nruft of Ijotli Ci. and F. Cuvier, the bezoiu-goat, ascribed toPersia and the Alps, is said to have been merely the do-mestic goat run wild. The celebrated Angora goat mayhave been derived from a ditferent species or variety,Capra/akotuiri^ originating in central Asia. The goat orrcpagrus in all its varieties is closely related to the ibex,Capra ibex, which, however, is a distinct species. In thestomach and intestines of the goat, as in those of other ar-tiodactyls, are found the concretions called bezoar-stones.Also written cegagre. Whether the Capra ceijafrru^ or the Capra ibex should beregarded as the stocic of the (biniestieated goat of Europehas long been a question among n:iturulists ; the weightyarguments which may be draw

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