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aX. Account of the Goats of Apgora: in a Let ler from 

 jV/. CHANCbYj to M. PiCTKr, of Genera*. 



X HE kind of goat which is known in Europe bv the name 

 ot" the Goat of Angora, is not the only one which exists in 

 Natolia and in the environs of this city. W e iind there 

 also another kind, more conunon and more resembling tha,t 

 of Europe. Travellers have imperfectly described those two 

 races, which are perfectly distinct; and hence arises the un- 

 certainty that prevails in Europe respecting the products of 

 each. We cannot remove this uncjrlainty bat by a posi- 

 tive description of each of the two races. This distinction 

 will prevent us in future from confounding the short wool 

 of the one kind, which is somewhat like cotton, with the 

 long and silky hair of the other. The two races of goats 

 in the neighbourhood of Angora are known by the names of 

 kara-gueschij and tlstik-gueschy. 



1. The kara-gueschy or scys (or black goat) is the com- 

 mon goat, resembling that of Europe ; and is found in 

 Syria, Natolia, and all the East. Its fleece is black, or qf a 

 deep brown. Tlte hair is long and straight, sufficiently fine 

 at the end which is fixed in the skin, but more black and 

 coarse at the other end. The kara-gueschy is shorn every 

 year. His hair is of a grosser quality, aitd is not exported 

 abroad, but emploved in these places for making coarse 

 stuffs for tents, and for sacks like our hair sacks. This 

 fleece of Angora is not more valued than the other goal 

 fleeces of the East. Its value in these places is thirty paras 

 for the ocqne of 400 drachms. Under this hair, and upon 

 the very skin of the animal, there is another fleece finer 

 and shorter. It is composed of slender hairs, of which the 

 length varies from an inch to an inch and a half. These, 

 by their mixture at the root of the longer hairs, form a 

 short wool of a cotton-like substance and of a yellowish 

 gray colour. This part of the fleece, which is bv far the 

 most precious, is obtained bv throwing water saturated with 

 lime upon the side, of the animal while it is vet covered 

 with hair. In a few minutes the hair and the down det.ich 

 themselves from the skin, and afterwards are easily sepa- 

 rated frona each otlie*". 



The wool of the kara-gueschy is imported rough into 

 Europe, where it is known by the name of Goat's haii". 

 Tt is employed in different manufactures, particulajly iu 



• From BiUiulheqvc Britannlqve, No. 198. 



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