J34 strictures on vianners. 'J^^y 3i« 



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STRICTURES ON MANNERS. 

 Continued yrorn \'o\. III. p. 239. 

 Part II. 



Manners of the Englijh after the Norman con- 

 quest. 



x HE most striking instance of barbarity we find 

 upon record, in the manners of our ancestors, was 

 the common, though horrid practice, of selling them- 

 selves, their- children, or kindred, into slavery; a 

 practice common to all the German nations, and 

 long continued by the natives of this island. 



may fall, for snoh specimens as may come in their way, accompanied 

 with a description of the place where found, the time when obtained, 

 and every other particular that appears to them to be of impor- 

 tance. Nor does he wifh that thi? fhould he confined to fheep only, 

 but to that of goats ^iso ; especially those like the Angora goat, 

 which carry a fleece of great value ; as also of the camel tribe, or 

 other domestic fur -bearing animals. He has seen a specimen of a 

 kind of hair, or wool, said to have come from Peru, that is evidently 

 the fleece of an animal of considerable size. The filament has none 

 of that crispinefs, that is a general characteristic of wool ; but it is 

 long, sleek, and glofsy, like hair, though it has the softnefs of 

 wool, or rather of silk. The longest, and coarsest of that wool measures 

 more than a foot in length, and is of a fawn coloured tinge, resem- 

 bling that of Vigonia wool, but lighter. The finer parts of the woo! 

 are white, and though long, is still fliorter than the other ; and remark- 

 ably soft and silky ; even more so than Shetland wool. Any notice;, 

 concerning the animal that carries this fleece would prove highly ac 

 ceptable. Edit. 



