GOAT. 
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P An cor a. Angora Goat. Hour- 191. Lin.JyJi . 94. Briffon quad. 39* 
neforts njoy. II. 351. Hajfelquijl, de Buffony v. 71. tab. x. xi. 
Found only near Angora , Beibazar and Cougna In 
Afiatic Turkey *. Thofe of the laft place brown or 
black ; and the two firft of a filky finenefs and Ill- 
very whitenefs, in curled locks of eight or nine 
inches in length; the bafis of our fine camblets j 
the hair imported here in form of thread, for the 
T urks will not fuffer it to be exported raw, as 
the fpinning gives employ to multitudes of poor. 
This variety is confined to a diftrift of two or 
three days journey in extent3 if they change climate, 
the hair grows coarfer. The Goat-herds are very 
attentive to them, perpetually combing and wafhing 
them; are fhorter than our goats and their horns 
lefs. Whether Strabo meant this kind ? as M.Tourne- 
fort conje&ures, when he mentions thofe on the 
banks of the Halys j very fcarce, fays he, in other 
places. The word Strabo ufes is which fig- 
nifies roebucks, not goats**. 
y Syrian. Capra mambrina Briffonquad. 47. 
feu fyriaca. Gefner quad. 153. Profper Alp. hijl. JEgypt. I. 229. 
Raiifyn. quad. 81. C. cornibus Rauwolffs trawls } II. 71. Ruffefs 
reclinatis, auribus pendulis, Aleppo, 62 . 
gula barbata. Lin. Jyjl. 95. 
Plentifull in the Eaft: fupply Aleppo with milk: 
their ears of a vaft length, hanging down like thofe 
* And according to Nieuhoff\ 232, at Gomron. Perhaps that ex- 
quifite hair taken from the breaft of a wild goat of the great Tibet* 
called Houz, may be of this kind. Vide Bgruie/s <voy. II. 94. 
Lib. xii. 
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