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In some of these skins you will observe that a coarse hair of 

 equal length to the fine is mixed through the fleece ; this is an 

 undesirable quality, and arises from the use of goats with long 

 coarse hair in the first instance. A great deal depends upon 

 the judgment with which the original stock is selected. There 

 is one skin here, which I exhibit as a remarkable instance 

 of what is known as " throwing back," or a recurrence to the 

 appearance of some remote ancestor. The goat from which this 

 skin was taken had three-fourth bred sire and dam, yet it 

 does not show any resemblance to an Angora, but is covered 

 with hair as long and coarse as the mane of a lion. 



