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ANGORA GOATS. 
our English downs ; which spreading also over the sides of the 
adjoining mountains, gave a rich pasture to thousands of goats, 
whose white and silvery coats are so well known in Europe under 
the name of the Angora. The town from which they take that 
appellation, lay about fifty miles to the south of the spot where 
we saw them feeding; but it does not entirely monopolise the 
manufacture of the shawl camlet which is made from their fleeces ; 
all the villagers, where the animals are bred, taking their share 
in dressing, or weaving the hair. In travelling along, we passed 
the flourishing village of Ivochezan, besides many others on the 
slopes of the valleys ; also a large town called Kissa. The village 
of Kaja-Sir was to be our post, which we reached in six hours 
and a half, though it is called ten ; the distance I should estimate 
at thirty miles. This place is situated on a small hill, and does 
not present any particular object of notice. We were in our 
saddles again at two o’clock, and journeyed for some time not 
far from the northern bank of the river. At about five miles on¬ 
ward from its southern shore, stands the town of Omerli. In 
less than an hour from that point we quitted the stream alto¬ 
gether ; it was become very narrow, and my conductor told me, 
we were not then far from its source. At six o’clock we arrived at 
Cara Jorem, where we halted for four hours. This place is called 
seven hours from the last post, but I count it only twenty miles. It 
was very dark when we remounted at ten o’clock, yet our guides 
led on at so rapid a pace that we alighted at the village of Cara- 
jular by one the next morning. The computed distance four 
hours, the miles twelve. 
November 23d. — Here we had the comfort of finding a clean 
coffee-house ! But the cause of such good fortune lay only in the 
building being new; however, no horses being to be had till mid- 
