An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

What these Goats here called wild Goats, ¹and wild Goats of the rock, are, is commonly known. The word which we render wild Goats, signifies in the Hebrew ascending or clambering, because Goats are clambering creatures, getting up the steepest rocks, and ascending the height of hills and mountains, which they do many times exceeding dangerously, seeming rather to hang by their feet than to go upon them.² Thus the old Poet fancied them, when he said, You may see the wild Goat hanging upon the rock, you may hope she will tumble down presently; But she deceives the hunter and his hounds; though she seems to hang uncertainly, yet she keeps her footing steadily. The Latins have a word signifying wild Goats, which critics say, comes from another latin word signifying a bird or flying fowl, because Goats may be said rather to fly than go upon those craggy places, or rather to use wings than feet. Such are the creatures here called wild Goats, and that with an addition, wild Goats Of the rocks,

What these Goats here called wild Goats, ¹and wild Goats of the rock, are, is commonly known. The word which we render wild Goats, signifies in the Hebrew ascending or clambering, because Goats are clambering creatures, getting up the steepest rocks, and ascending the height of hills and mountains, which they do many times exceeding dangerously, seeming rather to hang by their feet than to go upon them.² Thus the old Poet fancied them, when he said, You may see the wild Goat hanging upon the rock, you may hope she will tumble down presently; But she deceives the hunter and his hounds; though she seems to hang uncertainly, yet she keeps her footing steddily. The Latines have a word signifying wild Goats, which criticks say, comes from another latine word signifying a bird or flying fowl, because Goats may be said rather to fly than go upon those craggy places, or rather to use wings than feet. Such are the creatures here called wild Goats, and that with an addition, wild Goats Of the rocks,

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