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down as the wool of Cashmere and Tibet, and 

 samples of the wool of the Tibetan and the 

 double-wooled goat of the banks of the Eux- 

 ine show them to be but varieties of the same 

 species. 



" This goat is of a larger size than those of 

 the more southern Turkish provinces, and its 

 wool is finer, and is the variety probably in- 

 troduced by Doctor Davis from Asia Minor 

 as the Cashmere, and now erroneously so-called 

 throughout the country, as all the importations 

 of this country, as far as we can learn, were 

 shipped from ports on the Mediterranean or 

 Constantinople, several thousand miles from 

 Cashmere or Tibet, through inhospitable and 

 almost untraveled countries for Europeans, 

 which goes far to prove the so-called * Cash- 

 mere ' goat to be the Angora." 



In the same article he refers to the true 

 Cashmere as " somewhat smaller than the 

 common and Angora goat. It has straight, 

 round, pointed horns; pendent ears; is covered 

 with straight and falling long, fine, flat, silky 



