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they can endure a considerable amount of cold ; they are, 

 in fact, a particularly hardy breed so long as they are 

 kept in a dry climate; but a damp locality kills them. 

 Attempts have been made in England and France, as also 

 at the Cape and in the United States of America, to 

 acclimatise the Cashmere, but with indifferent results. 

 As early as 1819 Baron Fernaux and M. Joubert intro- 

 duced a herd of nearly 400 head into France, some of 

 which under favourable circumstances are stated to have 

 thrived well enough, but their fleeces degenerated in 

 quality, the amount of material obtained from each 

 individual being at the same time exceedingly small. 



Introduction into England. 



A portion of the above herd was purchased by Mr. 

 C. T. Tower, an English gentleman who happened to be 

 in Paris at the time they arrived, and who removed them 

 to his park at Weald Hall, Essex. Here they flourished 

 sufficiently well to enable their owner to have a shawl 

 made from their fleeces, which were pronounced by com- 

 petent judges to be of very fair quality. A herd of 

 goats descended from this importation still roams at large 

 in the same park, being now (1909) in the possession of 

 Mr. C. J. H. Tower, grandson of the original importer. 



The Windsor Herd. 



About the year 1828 a pair of goats from the herd 

 mentioned above were presented by the owner to King 

 George IV. and placed in Windsor Park, where they 

 rapidly increased, developing in course of time into the 

 large herd which roams the Park at the present day. (An 

 interesting photograph of a portion of this Windsor 

 herd was taken for the writer, and is reproduced in 

 Fig. 9.) Here the experiment which had been tried 



