Hayis] 426 [Slarch 18, 



the whole population was busy and happy in the pursuit of their 

 beautiful industry. After the Greek revolution the Turkish Gov- 

 ernment was tempted by British influence to admit, free of duty, the 

 products of European machinery and to pei-mit the export of the raw 

 tiftik. This tixtal step was the death blow of the town of Angora. 

 The whole product, with the exception of twenty thousand pounds 

 only, still worked up at home, was exported to England. The looms 

 employed were reduced from one thousand two hundred to not more 

 than fifty; and the town, although having at its command the raw 

 material for a most important and characteristic manufacture, offers 

 in its sad decline another monument of the desolating influence of 

 that system which would make the raw material of every country 

 tributary to the one great workshop of the world. 



KESULTS OF EXPEEIMENTS IX ACCLIMATIOX IX EUROPE AND 

 THE UNITED STATES. 



The attention of philanthropic agriculturists in Europe was drawn 

 to this race in the last century. The first attempt to appropriate the 

 race in Europe Avas made by the Spanish Government, whi(di im- 

 ported a flock in 1765, which has disappeared. Next followed the 

 imjjortation of the President Tour d'Aigues, who introduced some 

 hundred upon the Low Alps in 1787. This exjDeriment of acclima- 

 tion appears to have been wholly successful, as this eminent agri- 

 culturist declares that although his flocks received no special care, 

 they Avere constantly preserved in good health and accommodated 

 themselves as well to the climate as the pasturage. "I can attest," he 

 says, "that nothing is easier than to raise and nourish the species; 

 they are led to the pastures with the sheep and are fed like them in 

 winter." Towards the end of the last century Louis XVI. imported 

 a flock of Angoras, to Rambouilet, but this, as well as the flocks of 

 Tour d'Aigues, disappeared in consequence of the revolution. The 

 best results were obtained in Spain from the importation of a flock of 

 ahundi-ed in 1830 by the King of Spain. M. Graells reports that 

 this flock was transported to the mountains of the Escurial where he 

 says: "I had occasion to see them for the first time in 1848, that is to 

 say, eighteen years after their entry into Castile. At this time the 

 flock was composed of two hundred individuals, almost all white. 

 The males had a magnificent fleece. The shepherds told me that 

 all the primitive individuals had disappeared, and that those which 

 lived were born in the country, and that they could be regarded as 

 natui-alized to the climate, the food and other inherent conditions of 

 the central region of Spain. At Huelva there is another flock of 

 jVngora goats, composed of a hundred head, and from the information 



