1868.] 421 [Hayes. 



"They breed tlie finest goats in the workl in the champaign of 

 Angora. They are of a dazzling white, and their hair, which is fine 

 as silk, naturally curled in locks of eight or nine inches long, is 

 worked up into the finest stuffs, especially, camlet. But they do not 

 su'ifer these fleeces to be exported from this place because the people 



of the country gain their Mvelihood thereby However it be, 



these fine goats are to be seen only within four or five days' journey 

 of Angora and Beibazttr. Their young degenerate if they are car- 

 ried further. The thread made of this goat's hair is sold for from 

 four livres to twelve or fifteen livres the ocque. Some is sold for 

 twenty and five and twenty crowns the ocque, but that is only made 

 up into camlet for the use of the Sultan's seraglio. The workmen of 

 Angora use this thread of goats' hair withovit any mixture, whereas 

 at Brussels they are obliged to mix thread made of wool, for what 

 reason I know not. In England they use up this hair in their peri- 

 wigs, but it cannot be spun All this country is dry and bare, 



except the orchards. The goats eat nothing except the young shoots 

 of herbs, and perhaps it is this which, as Brusbequius observes, con- 

 tributes to the consummation of the beauty of their fleece, which is 

 lost when they change their climate and pasture."* 



Interesting statements in relation to the culture of this species at 

 Angora are given by Capt. Conelly, an English traveller, in a paper 

 read before the Asiatic Society, which I deem it unnecessary to repeat, 

 as they are generally accessible in Mr. Southey's work on wool.f 

 The most recent information is that given by the Russian traveller 

 before quoted, who devoted five years to the study of natural history 

 in Asia Minor, and M. Boulier (Paariuaeien Aide Major) in a report 

 of a mission to Asia Minor j)resented to the French Minister of War. J 

 The region marked out by the former of these scientific travellers, as 

 the joeculiar domain of the Angora goat, is situated between 39° 20' 

 and 41° 30' north latitude, and between 33° 20' and 35° longitude 

 east of Paris, a surface of about 2350 metric leagues square, equiva- 

 lent to about a forty-fourth part of the surface of the peninsula of 

 Asia Minor, and about the same fraction of the area of France. 

 Tliis country is more or less mountainous and furrowed by deep val- 

 leys, its mean altitude being estimated at 1200 metres, while the more 

 elevated masses are generally shaded with fine forests; the plateaus 

 which form a large part of the country, are very little wooded. The 



*A Voyage into the Levant. By M. Tournefort, Chief Botanist to the French 

 King. 



tSouthpy on Colonial Wools, p. 322, et seq. 



tVide Considerations sur la chevre d'Angora par M. P. de Tchihatcheff, Bull, 

 supr. cit., T. XI. p. 305. Sur la chevre d' Angora. Par M Boulier, Pharrnacieu Aide 

 Major. Bull. supr. cit., T. iv., p. 557. 



