Show goat ranked above cow in mountainous lan lands ds although they keep themselves distinct and appear to affect disdain one tor for the alie other sheep and goats are and apparently always have been pastured together the goats eating the brush and roughage which the more tender mouthed sheep will not touch in rough rocky mountainous districts as aa Is a great part of 0 the land of 0 canaan the goat Is a more serviceable animal than the cow more agile and wonderfully acure ure footed fooled content to wander about and pick a mouthful here bere and there able to live without much more moisture than the heavy dews supply long loing lived and generally pene rally free from sickness especially from contagious diseases they thrive best in tb the higher altitudes find and the wild varieties which exsted until comparatively recent days lo in syria and about the palestinian lebanon are always sought on mountain tops As the psalmist says the high bills are a refuge tor for the wild goats it la Is worth noticing that among all his riches of flocks and herds job counted no goats as was to bo be expected since he lived on an arabian plain where here was abundant pasturage for his fourteen to arteen thousand sheep and six fix thousand camels aud and a thousand yoke of 0 oxen and a thousand she asses job 2912 as well doubtless as immense numbers ot of cons |