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times mixed with goat's hair, are twisted into 

 halter ropes, knit into caps, or woven into web- 

 bing, girdles, sackcloth, tent-cloth, and carpets. 

 Among the Tartars, where the wool is finer, 

 cloth of a close texture and great durability is 

 manufactured from it, and Burnes speaks of a 

 ' fine water-proof cloth ' of camel's hair, made in 

 Bokhara. 1 In Cabul, cloths are woven from it, 

 says General Harlan, ' approaching in softness 

 the wool of Thibet, and surpassing in silky 

 smoothness and fineness the most delicate flan- 

 nel.' It is well known that none of the fabrics 

 sold in Western Europe under the name of 

 camel's hair, are made of the wool of this ani- 

 mal. The shawls formerly called camel's hair, 

 but now more generally cashmere, are manu- 

 factured from the wool of the Thibet goat, now 

 partially naturalized in France by the joint 

 efforts of Ternaux and Joubert, and other 

 animals of the goat family. And it is a cir- 

 cumstance worth mentioning, that French shawls 

 are woven with Oriental patterns for European 

 consumption, and with European designs for 

 the Eastern market. It appears, however, from 

 Erman, that shawls of an exceedingly fine qual- 

 ity are manufactured in Bokhara, of camel's 

 wool, though they rarely, if 'ever, find their way 



1 The raiment of John the Baptist was of camel's hair. 

 Matthew in. 4. 



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