the Kingdom of Thibet. 48'5, 
form at home, without two Chowrawbadars, or hr u fliers, 
attending him, with i'uch inftruments in their hands. 
The next article is the wool from which the Sharif, 
the moll delicate woollen manufacture in the- world, fo 
much prized in the Eaft, and now fo well known in Eng? 
land, is made. Till Mr. bogle’s journey our notions on 
that fubject were very crude and imperfeCt. As the 
Shards all come from Caffemire, we concluded the ma- 
terial from which they were fabricated to be alfo of that 
country’s growth, it was faid to be the hair of a particu- 
lar goat, the fine under hair from a camel’s bread:, and a 
thoufand other fancies but we now know it for certain 
to be the produce of a Thibet flreep. Mr. Hastings had 
one or two of thefe in his paddock when 1 left Bengal. 
They are of a fmall breed, in figure nothing differing 
from our flieep, except in their tails, which are very 
broad; but their fleeces, for the finenefs, length, and 
beauty of the wool, exceed all others in the world. The 
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Caifemirians engrofs this article, and have factors efta- 
blifhed for its purchafe in every part of Thibet, from 
whence it is fent to, Caflemire, where it is worked up, 
and becomes a fource of great wealth to that country, a$ 
well as it is originally to Thibet- 
Mufk is another of their ftaple articles, of which it 
will be needlefs to fay much, as the nature, quality, and 
jl . valuer. 
