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with honey and excellent bread. The people are the moft po- 
liflied I have yet feen in Anatolia. 
The trade is chiefly in yarn, of which our fhalloons are 
made, and their own manufadture of Angora fluffs. Of the 
latter I am told they make yearly from fifteen to twenty thou- 
fand pieces, of thirty Stambul pikes each, or nearly twenty-two 
yards. The breed of goats they fay is on the decline. There 
is however a great extent of country which is capable of fup- 
plying food to their flocks ; fo that the number might be eafily 
augmented. Each goat produces on an average from two to 
three hundred drams annually. The hair is taken from the 
whole body, and not the belly alone. They are fhorn once a 
year, the fheep twice. The wool of the latter is particularly 
fine and long. Of the goats' hair they have, it is reported, made 
fhawls here, equal in quality to the Kafhmirian, and as wide. 
They coft the maker one hundred piafters a-piece ; but the ma- 
nufadturers were unable to work flowers in them. They have 
alfo made good cloth ; but the fabric was abandoned for want 
of encouragement. A fpecial regulation conflrains them to work 
the fhalloons with double thread, otherwife they might be made 
much finer. The beft of the Angora fluffs, worked by the 
piece, flands the manufad;urer in about kve.n\.y paras the pike, 
or two thoufand (= 3I. los. or 3I. 15s.) the piece. I fhould ob- 
ferve that in the manufadure of camlets no wool is ufed. Wax 
is exported, and in this part of Anatolia are cultivated large 
quantities of opium. 
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