Scotland/Scots > Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

WESTERN ISLANDS, &c. 187
ows in Barra, and very little horfes in
um, where perhaps no care is taken to
prevent that diminution of fize, which mufl
ilways happen, where the greater and the
efs copulate promifcuoufly, and the young
nimal is reftrained from growth by pe1-
iury of fuftenance.
The goat is the general inhabitant of the
tmh, complying with every difference of
:!imate, and of foil. The goats of the iB-
^rides are like others ; nor did 1 hear any
bing of their (heap, to be particularly re>
rked,
In the penury of thefe malignant regions,
lothing is lefT that can be converted to
x>d. The goats and the fheep are milked
Ike the cows. A fingle meal of a goat is
quart, and of a fheep a pint. Such at
^aft was the account, which 1 could extract
lorbm thofe of whom I am not fare that they
ver had inquired.
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