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long hairs, which reach far beyond the inferior ones, 
are called Oj ; the more a fkin has of fuch long 
hairs, the blacker they are, and the more valuable 
is the fur *, the very belt have no other but thofe 
long and black hairs : Motchka is a technical term 
in the Ruffian fur trade, expreffing the lower part 
of the long hairs; and fometimes it comprehends 
likewife the lower and ffiorter hairs : the above men¬ 
tioned bed: fable furs are faid to have a black 
Motchka: below the long hairs are, in the greater 
j)arts of fable furs, fome ffiorter hairs, called Podofie , 
i. e. Under-Os: the more Podofie a fur has, the leffi 
valuable: in the better kind of fables the Podofie 
has black tips, and a grey or rufty Motchka : the firft 
kind of Motchka makes the middling kind of fable 
furs ; the red one the worft, efpecially if it has but 
few Os: between the Os and Podofie is a low wooly 
kind of hair, called Podfada^ the mor zPodfada a fur 
has, the lefs valuable, for the long hair will, in fuch 
cafe, take no other dire&ion than the natural one ; 
for the character of fables is, that notwithftanding 
the hair naturally lies from the head towards the 
tail, yet will lie equally in any direfrion, as you 
ftrike your hand over it: the various combinations 
of thefe charadlers, in regard to Os , Motchka , Po- 
dofe 9 and Podfada , make many fpecial divifions of 
the goodnefs of furs: befides this, the furriers at¬ 
tend to the lize, preferving always ceteris paribus 
the biggeft, and thofe that have the greatefl glofs : 
the fize depends upon the animal being a male or 
female, the latter being always fmaller: the glofs 
vaniffies in old furs: the freffi ones have a kind of 
bloomy 
