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thunders, and raifed ftorms of hail, rain, fnow, and wind. He 

 looked favage, having a large white beard uncombed, whiclv 

 like that of our Druid, '^ ftreamed like a meteor to the troubled 

 air." The fage forbid the mr.king the left noife, on pain ot 

 raifing furious ftorms and tempefts. 

 Shawls. Cojlmiere is famous for its manufa£lure oi ^flm-wls, made of 



the wool of the broad-tailed flieep, who are found in the king- 

 dom of 'Thibet ; and their fleeces,, in finenefs, beauty, and length, 

 fays Mr. Bogle, in Ph. Tranf. Ixviii. 485, exceed all others in the 

 world. The Capmeriajis engrofs this article,^ and have fadtora 

 in all parts of Thibet for buying up the wool, which is fent into 

 Cajhmere, and worked into Jljawls, fuperior in elegance to thofe 

 woven even from the fleeces of their own country. This ma- 

 nufacTture is a confiderable fource of wealth. Bernier relates,, 

 that in his days, Jljaivh made exprefsly for the great OmrabSy 

 of the Tbibetian wool, ccft a hundred and fifty roupees^ 

 whereas thofe made of the wool of the country never coft more 

 than fifty. 



Akbar was a moft particular encourager of the manufa(5lure. 

 He not only paid a great attention to thofe of this province^ 

 but introduced them into Lahore, where, in his days, there 

 were a thoufand manufa<ftories, fays Abulfazul, of this com- 

 modity. The natural color of the wool of the Toos ajfel, the 

 name of the animal, is grey, tinged with red, but fome are quite 

 white. Akbar firft introduced the dying them. The wool of 

 another animal ufed in the manufacture is white or black, out 

 out of ^\hich were woven white, black, and grey fliawls. 

 Poflibly two forts of animals may produce the material; one 



indifputably 



