Animal products; . MOHAIR, OR GOAT S WOOL. The Cashmere, Persian, Angora, and Circassian goats are oneand the same animal, changed in some respects by altitude,though but little by latitude. They abound in the inaccessibleregions of those countries, and are the flesh, milk, cheese andbutter-yielding and wool-furnishing animal of the whole are finely developed for the table, much disposed to fatten,with very white and beautiful long fine wool or curly hair, thefleece weighing, in different districts, from two to three and a halfpounds. The larger Kurdish goat with black wool has a
Animal products; . MOHAIR, OR GOAT S WOOL. The Cashmere, Persian, Angora, and Circassian goats are oneand the same animal, changed in some respects by altitude,though but little by latitude. They abound in the inaccessibleregions of those countries, and are the flesh, milk, cheese andbutter-yielding and wool-furnishing animal of the whole are finely developed for the table, much disposed to fatten,with very white and beautiful long fine wool or curly hair, thefleece weighing, in different districts, from two to three and a halfpounds. The larger Kurdish goat with black wool has a moreextensive range than the white goat, which is better known by thename of the town which is the centre of its range—Angora. * Cases 89 and 90 contain samples of Cashmere and Angora wool, and otherkinds of goats hair ; and Cases 88, 91, 92, and 93, fabrics made of it. 52 ANGORA GOATS. The Angora goat, although originally confined to a limiteddistrict, has now been transported to and reared successfully inmany o
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