 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1841 - 630 Seiten
...Tif'tik of this year's shearing, is now selling in the Angora bazar for nine piastres, or about Is. s y., and the finest picked wool of the same growth is fetching...continually combing itself with its spirally twisted horns3. A merchant, not of Angora, remarked, that probably there, as elsewhere, the finer the fleece... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1841 - 640 Seiten
...of this year's shearing, is now selling in the Angora bazar for nine piastres, or about Is. ^ ',"'., and the finest picked wool of the same growth is fetching...continually combing itself with its spirally twisted horns3. A merchant, not of Angora, remarked, that probably there, as elsewhere, the finer the fleece... | |
 | Thomas Southey - 1848 - 388 Seiten
...of this year's shearing, is now selling in the Angora bazaar for nine piastres, or about Is. S^d., and the finest picked wool of the same growth is fetching...of the animal's continually combing itself with its spirally-twisted horns. A merchant, not of Angora, remarked that probably there, as elsewhere, the... | |
 | U.S. Congress - 1863 - 780 Seiten
...is here manufactured into the most delicate articles. A curious statement was made to us at Angora, that only the white goats which have horns wear their fleece in long curly locks, which are so much admired, while the hornless ones have a comparatively close coat.... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - 1863 - 806 Seiten
...is here manufactured into the most delicate articles. A curious statement was made to us at Angora, that only the white goats which have horns wear their fleece in long curly locks, which are so much admired, while the hornless ones have a comparatively close coat.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1864 - 842 Seiten
...is here manufactured into the most delicate articles. A curious statement was made to us at Angora, that only the white goats which have horns wear their fleece in long curly locks, which are so much admired, while the hornless ones have a comparatively close coat.... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1876 - 544 Seiten
...horns. Tho inhabitants of Angora assert '* that " only " tho white goats which have horns wear the fleece in the " long curly locks that are so much...are not horned having a comparatively close coat." From these cases wo may infer that the hair or wool and the horns tend to vary in a correlated manner.15... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 734 Seiten
...shaped horns. The inhabitants of Angora assert u that " only " the white goats which have horns wear the fleece in the " long curly locks that are so much...are not horned having a comparatively close coat." From these cases we may infer that the hair or wool and the horns tend to vary in a correlated manner.15... | |
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Is. s y., and the finest picked wool of the same growth is fetching fourteen piastres per oke.' A curious statement made to us at Angora was, that only the white goats which have horns, wear their fleece in the long curly locks that are so much admired;... 