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venience of man. He derives the greatest part 

 of his clothing from their skins, their hair, and 

 their wool. Many skins are prepared with the 

 hair left upon them, and in this state are called 

 furs, or in commerce peltry. These are furnished 

 chiefly by wild animals ; as the fox, the hare, the 

 heaver, the ermine, and the sable. 



The fur of these, and the hair of the dog and 

 the goat, are made into hats. That of cows and 

 calves, and horses, is used for stuffing chairs, 

 sofas, and mattrasses, and for making hair-cloth, 

 the finer sorts of which are sometimes used for 

 clothing, and the coarser for packing valuable 

 goods. The shining stuff, used for covering 

 chairs, is made of horse-hair, and the hair of 

 violin-bows is procured from the tails of horses. 

 Camel-hair is used for making hats, and a stuff 

 called camlet ; and that of the Angora goat is 

 manufactured into a yarn, from which various 

 stuffs are woven. The wool of the sheep is, 

 however, the most valuable, being converted, by 

 means of the loom, into woollen cloth, shalloon, 

 serge, baize, and flannel. 



The skins of wild boars and seals are used for 

 covering trunks ; but the most important use of 

 the skins of animals is to make leather, by a 

 process termed tanning. This is the business of 

 the tanner, who employs the skins of oxen, calves, 

 sheep, and deer. The beautiful shining leather, 

 called morocco, is made from goat-skin. 



Candles are made from the fat of cows and 



