01!, A TREATISE ON PILE. 1 .|:j 



The Goat lives from 11 to 12 years, its flesh is used as food; 1liat, of tlic kid being- 

 esteemed to be more delicate than that of the lamb. In several parts of Ireland and the 

 Highlands of Scotland the Goat constitutes the chief agricultural riches. The Welsh 

 goats are also much celebrated. 



Having endeavored to retrieve the character of the goat, we will next show what has 

 been done, and what can be done to render him a valuable animal in the United States. 



Colonel Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, has introduced upon his farm the Thibet 

 Goats. He kindly sent us a number of specimens of their fleece, which are fine and silky. 

 When we recommend the agriculturists of the United States to introduce upon their 

 farms the Thibet Goat, it is not as a mere experiment, and we refer them with confidence 

 to the patriotic and scientific gentleman whose name we have just quoted ; who, we are 

 sure will take pleasure in imparting any information he may possess in the premises, upon 

 a proper application. 



We notice that two of the specimens are marked "half breed, between the Cashmere and 

 common Goat." We have also in our collection of pile one specimen marked "Angora 

 Goat," obtained through the politeness of R. C. Weightman, Esq., of the United States 

 Patent Office, but where it was raised we have not learned. 



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OF THE MAZAMA, (OF RAF.) THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT OF HARLAN AND SCHINTZ. 

 The Examination and Description of the Pile of the, Mazama (Raf.J Americana, the 

 Rocky Mountain Goat of liar Ian and Schintz. Specimens presented by Professor Samuel 

 S. Haldeman. This pile is of two kinds, one longer and coarser than the other. The 

 general apearance of the first is of lamb's hair of the second, of the under coat of the 

 poodle dog. The first is in length about four inches, but it appears to have been cut, not 

 drawn out of the skin of the animal. Shape, eccentrically elliptical ; depressed in the 

 centre, tapering from the inferior to the superior extremities. The diameters of four fila- 

 ments, taken in three places of each : 



No 1. jJ T by r ig ^ T by *ta TTT by ^ of an inch. 

 2 - sir ' yit T~ST ' 



" Q 1 1 1 it 



*' S3T 62~S 2~3l 



" A 1 " 1 1 " 1 1 '< 1 " 



*' UFO 6 2 ^ 2"66 T 63 26* TD'TT 



Color, white; direction, straight, but undulated. 

 Ductility, Elasticity and Tenacity. 



With 170 grains one inch stretched -fo of an inch, elasticity entire. 

 " 220 " " " -7 " " " 



270 " " if " minus ^ 



320 " broke. 



Fracture, abrupt; shaft, composed of three parts, viz: 1st, a cortex which is white and 

 too thin to be measured ; 2d, a black, fibrous band, of the thickness of ^ST of an inch ; 

 3d, a white, opaque, granular centre, which has a fleecy appearance ; apex, sometimes 

 abrupt, but mostly pointed; none furcated; transverse sections or disks exhibit plainly, the 

 shape and three parts above enumerated. (See fig. 96.) 

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