The history of four-footed beasts and serpents. (1658)
Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?, Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565, Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604, Rowland, John, M.D · London, Printed by E. Cotes, for G. Sawbridge [etc.] · leaf 363
, u °and fix and twenty pounds in weight. This Beaft (faith Tolybius) in his neck and hair is like a Buck-goat, bearing a beard under his chin of a fpan long, as thickas a Colts tail, and in other parts ofhis body refembleth a Hart. It feemeththat his Hebrew name faal, is derived of climbing, and… … and Mountains, far from the view and fight of men. Their horns reach to their buttocks orhips, fo that if at any time hedoth chance to fall, he cowcheth his whole body betwixt his horns,to break the ftrong force and violence of his own weight, and alfohe is able to receive upon hishorns the ftrokes…
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