ANGORA GOAT. 
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Angora goat. 
The Angora goat is shorter in the form of its 
body than our common domestic goat. Its sides 
are broader and more flat,, its legs shorter,, and its 
horns straighter. Its hair is soft and glossy, like 
silk, and of a silver white colour, and hangs down 
in curling locks, eight or nine inches long. Its 
horns are wreathed in a spiral form, and extend to- 
wards its sides. Its ears are plain and pendulous. 
These goats are confined within the tract of 
country around the towns of Angora and Beibazar 
in Asiatic Turkey. The goats of Cougna, the old 
Iconium, are probably near allied in their charac- 
ter to those of Angora. Touroefourt, in mention- 
ing the goats of these two different districts, re- 
presents those of Angora as distinguished from 
those of Cougna only by diversity of colour ; the 
latter being all either black or brown. A Baron 
Alstroemer attempted, with what success we know 
not, to introduce this breed into Sweden, for the 
sake of the hair. It is remarkable, that not only 
the goat, but even the sheep and the hare of An- 
gora have longer and softer hair than the same 
animals in any other part of the globe. 
The length, the fineness, the curling softness* 
and the beautiful white colour of the hair of the 
Angora goat* render it a very valuable commodity. 
It is spun into thread, of which the finest camblets 
are wrought. The Turkish administration, with 
a wise policy, prohibit this hair from being ex- 
ported raw ; because the spinning of it affords 
employment and sustenance to a number of their 
subjects. An animal furnished with such precious 
hair, would surely be a valuable acquisition to 
Britain, if w:e might hope that it would thrive in 
