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ANGORA GOAT. 



Capn Angorcnsu. C. pilu longutimu crifpii tnto an\ 

 tita. Un, Sust. Xat. Gmel. p. 194. Bri*. Reg*. 

 64. n. 2. llastelq. it. 206. 



Goat with very long, pendent, spirally curled hair. 



THIS is \}\- far the most elegant of all the 

 rictics of the Gout, and Is a native of J agora, a 

 small district in Asia Minor, not tar from Smyrna, 

 and remarkable for producing a peculiar race of 

 i >hcep, C ' . Rabbets, &c. with hair of 



uncommon length and fineness. 



The Goat of Angora is gem-rally of a beautiful 

 milk-white colour, short legged, with black, 

 -pirally twisted horns, and with the 

 hair on the whole body disposed in long pendent 

 spiral ringlets : the ears are pendulous, and the 

 horns of the female, instead of divaricating, as in 

 the male, turn backwards, and are much shorter 

 in proportion. It is from the hair of this animal 

 that the finest camlet >. &C. are prepared. In 

 order to proervc this beautiful hair in good con- 

 dition, the goatherds of Angi-m are peculiarly 

 careful of their flocks, \\asliing and i 

 them with the ; ililigcr.cc; and it i> said 



that a change of pasture frequently iuak< s them 



ty, this \ 



confined to narrow bounds, and produced only in 

 the tract surrounding the to< 

 bazar. 



