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silk Some of it is of such a superior kind, that it is a capital 
crime to export it, as it is preserved to make camlets for the seraglio 
of the Grand Signor. The common kind is employed in the fabri¬ 
cation of the camlets in the Levant, and in the best manufactories 
of the same stuffs in Europe. No less than five or six hundred camel- 
loads of this precious article are exported annually by the English, 
French and Dutch, who have resident agents in tlio town. It is 
transported in caravans to Smyrna, which is the emporium of Angora. 
Several houses in Constantinople have established factors at Angora, 
and carry on a very lucrative and extensive trade in this article. 
The Turks will not allow the valuable hair of these animals to be 
sent out of the country in a raw state, but in the form of thread, 
as multitudes of the poorer classes obtain a livelihood by spinning it. 
The population of Angora is about 101,000.” 
Before sitting down he would wish to refer to one or two other 
matters not touched upon in the'report, and the first thing he would 
mention is, that Air. Gustave Beckx, who had been for many years 
Belgian Consul at this port, and who had recently left to pay a visit 
to his native country', had promised him (the Chairman) to do what 
he could towards sending over to this country a shipment of night- 
in''ales, and to those who, like himself, had so often listened to the 
beautiful song of these birds, he felt sure that this statement would 
be heard with great satisfaction, but whilst doing all that lay in their 
power to beautify the country, the Society had always been most 
attentive to the utilitarian purposes for which it was established, and 
was ever on the look out to be of service to the agriculturists. With 
this view, one or two attempts had been made to introduce the rook, 
these had, however, from unavoidable causes, failed, and he (the 
Chairman) had written a month or two since to Air. B. T. Firebrace, 
asking him, during his stay in London, to take the matter in hand, 
and he only hoped that he would be as successful with the rook as 
he had been with the skylark. 
One more statement, and he had done. He had that day been 
informed, by a gentleman just returned from Tasmania, that the 
salmon had been seen in the Derwent on their second return from the 
sea some few days ago. Dr. Officer, in a letter to Dr. Alueller, 
remarked that he had from his residence, at New Norfolk, observed 
a considerable commotion in the river immediately opposite his house, 
and from his experience of the indigenous fish in that river, felt 
thoroughly convinced that it could be caused by nothing but the 
salmon on their return from the sea. Since then this opinion has 
been fully confirmed by other parties who have actually 
seen the fish on their way up the river to the spawning ground ; 
