OR, A TREATISE ON PILE. 145 
The Goat lives from 11 to 12 years, its flesh is used as food; that of the kid being 
esteemed to be more delicate than that of the lamb. In several parts of Ireland and the 
Highlands of Scotland the Goat constitutes the chief agricultural riches. The Welsh 
goats are also much celebrated. 
Having endeavored to retrieve the character of the goat, we will next show what has 
been done, and what can be done to render him a valuable animal in the United States. 
Colonel Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, has introduced upon his farm the Thibet 
Goats. He kindly sent us a number of specimens of their fleece, which are fine and silky. 
When we recommend the agriculturists of the United States to introduce upon their 
farms the Thibet Goat, it is not as a mere experiment, and we refer them with confidence 
to the patriotic and scientific gentleman whose name we have just quoted; who, we are 
sure will take pleasure in imparting any information he may possess in the premises, upon 
a proper application. 
We notice that two of the specimens are marked “half breed, between the Cashmere and 
common Goat.”’ We have also in our collection of pile one specimen marked ‘“ Angora 
Goat,” obtained through the politeness of R. C. Weightman, Esq., of the United States 
Patent Office, but where it was raised we have not learned. 
Or THE Mazama, (oF Rar.) rHE Rocky Mowtnrain Goat or Haruan and ScHInTz.— 
The Examination and Description of the Pile of the Mazama ( Raf.) Americana, the 
Rocky Mountain Goat of Harlan and Schintz.—Specimens presented by Professor Samuel 
S. Haldeman. This pile is of two kinds, one longer and coarser than the other. ‘The 
general apearance of the first is of lamb’s hair—of the second, of the under coat of the 
poodle dog. The first is in length about four inches, but it appears to have been cut, not 
drawn out of the skin of the animal. Shape, eccentrically elliptical ; depressed in the 
centre, tapering from the inferior to the superior extremities. ‘The diameters of four fila- 
ments, taken in three places of each: 
1 pee ks uf r 1 i r 1 c Ne 
No lL. 337 by ate abt bY sto 2o7 by s¢z of an inch. 
(73 3) ail (73 L 1 “6 ly ple ax ed ees ce 
i PTH 781 281 626 266 1250 
€ gees ce os = il’ ce al ye oe 1 ae oe 
eset 625 281 625 266 1250 
ee pees Ea Se ee 1 = od RG at ak ce au bee “ee 
250 6256 266 562 264 500 
Color, white; direction, straight, but undulated. . 
Ductihty, Elasticity and Tenacity.— 
With 170 grains one inch stretched ,, of an inch, elasticity entire. 
a 220 a & i oy fe + 
ce 270 ce “cc oe 
tt. 9 320i), °o= broke: 
Fracture, abrupt; shaft, composed of three parts, viz: Ist, a cortex which is white and 
too thin to be measured ; 2d, a black, fibrous band, of the thickness of ;,!;; of an inch; 
3d, a white, opaque, granular centre, which has a fleecy appearance ; apex, sometimes 
abrupt, but mostly pointed; none furcated ; transverse sections or disks exhibit plainly, the 
shape and three parts above enumerated. (See fig. 96.) 
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