ANGORA CAT. 
To this, which is the entire account of the 
Angora Cat, as given hy Pennant; we shall 
add what has been incidentally said by Bufton, 
who does not afford it any particular descrip- 
tion. 
After mentioning, under the general article 
Cat, that M. Kolbe says, there is, at the Cape 
of Good Hope, a wild kind, of a blue colour, 
BufFonthus pr9ceeds — " These Blue, or rather 
Slate-Coloured Cats, are also found in Asia. 
* In Persia,' says Pietro della V alle, * there is 
a species of Cats, which" properly belong to 
the Province of Chorazan. Their figure and 
size are the same with those of the Common 
Cat. Their beauty consists in the colour of 
their hair : which is grev, and uniformly the 
same over the whole body : except that it is 
darker on the back and head, and clearer on 
the breast and belly, where it approaches to 
whiteness ; with that agreeable mixture of 
clare-obscure, to use the language of painters, 
which has always a wonderful effevfl. Besides, 
the hair is fine ; shining ; soft as silk ; and so 
long that, though not frizzled, it forms linglets 
in some parts, and particularly under the throat. 
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