t44 TRICIOLOGIA MAMMALIUM : 
When a filament is crushed, the fibres readily separate. They have a diameter of <1; 
of an inch, but may be divided into fibrils of from 555 to s549 of an inch. The central - 
matter which oozes out from the interior, is white, opaque, and granular; the grains of an 
The Small Pile—Length, 1,45 mech; shape, oval; diameter, from 5,45 to ;,/,, of an 
inch. The shaft consists of three parts, like the first described, but the cortex is compara- 
tively thicker. It is undulated and slightly frizzled ; no furcations. 
Ductility, Elasticity and Tenacity.— With 12 grains one inch parted with its undulations 
and elongated 2, of an inch. 
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With 25 grains one inch stretched ,3,, elasticity entire. 
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Scales upon the cortex, 3,500 upon one inch of length. 
Tue Pits or tHE Common Goat.—The skin of the common Goat is peculiarly well 
adapted to the manufacture of gloves, and is used to make morocco leather. From their 
hair is also made camlet, which for beauty those of Syria are much esteemed. The 
fleece of the Russian Goat is much extolled as consisting of, first, a short stiff hair, and 
secondly, a fine soft wool which grows at the roots of the other pile. Some of the latter 
was sent to Englind to be manufactured, the quantity was so small that the chain was 
made of silk, and the fabric is represented to have been equal to the finest Indian shawls. 
This induced Dr. Anderson to examine the pile of the common Haglsh Goat, among 
which it is said he found the very same substance. From this experiment the author of 
lilus. of Nat. Hist. ventures the assertion, that a variety of the goat species in Great 
Britain does actually produce a wool of perhaps finer quality than that which is yielded 
by any sheep whatever. (See Anderson’s Recreat. in Agric. v. 2, p. 231.) We earnestly 
recommend to the enterprising American farmers to try the experiment of raising and 
breeding the common Goat of this country for the fleece. 
Or THE Camet.—This animal, according to Edwards, (Elem. de Zéol., 432,) belongs 
to the eighth order, viz:—‘* Ruminants”-—the section “without horns’’—and the tribe 
“Camel.” ‘There are seven species, viz: Ist, the Arabian Camel or 
Camelus Dromedarius of Linn., and Le Dromédaire of Buff.;) 2d, the Bactrian Camel, 
(C. Bactrianus of Linn., the Chameau of Buff. ;) 3d, the Lama, Camelus (Glama of Linn., 
the Lama of Buff.;) 4th, the Guanaco or Huanaco of Molina, (see Nat. Hist. of Chili;) 
5th, the Peruvian Camel, (C. Arcuanus of Linn., found in Peru and Chili;) 6th, the 
Vicunna, (the C. Vicugna of Linn., the Vicunna of Pennant;) 7th, the 
(the C. Paco of Linn., and Pacos of Pennant.) 
Dromedary, (the 
Paco or Alpaca, 
