. The textile manufactures of the ancients : embracing the history of silk, linen, cotton, wool, and other fibrous substances : deduced from Yate's [sic] Textrinum antiquorum, and other authentic sources . Hate FELT BY THE ANCIENTS. 415 likewise the doors are made*? Very recently the same ac-count of these portable tents of felt has been given by Juliusvon Klaprotht. Kupffer says of the Caratchai, ; Leurs largesmanteaux de feutre leur servent en meme terns de matelas etde couverturej. The large mantle of felt, here mentioned, isused for the same purpose in the neighboring country of Cir
. The textile manufactures of the ancients : embracing the history of silk, linen, cotton, wool, and other fibrous substances : deduced from Yate's [sic] Textrinum antiquorum, and other authentic sources . Hate FELT BY THE ANCIENTS. 415 likewise the doors are made*? Very recently the same ac-count of these portable tents of felt has been given by Juliusvon Klaprotht. Kupffer says of the Caratchai, ; Leurs largesmanteaux de feutre leur servent en meme terns de matelas etde couverturej. The large mantle of felt, here mentioned, isused for the same purpose in the neighboring country of Cir-cassian One of these mantles now in the possession of was made of black goats-hair, and had on the out-side a long shaggy villus. The Circassians sleep under thismantle by night, and wear it, when required, over then otherdress by day. A similar article is thus described by ColonelLeake !l: the postillions in Phrygia wear a cloak of whitecamels-hair, half an inch thick, and so stiff that the cloakstands without support, when set upright on the ground. Thereare neither sleeves nor hood ; but only holes to pass the handsthrough, and projections like wings upon the shoulders for thepurpose of turning
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