Part 10 (1/2)

Fro velvet, which comes from _vellus_, hair or fleece

What is Mohair?

The hair of a kind of goat, coora, in Turkey It is used in the manufacture of various kinds of stuffs, shawls, &c

Is there not another animalof shawls?

Yes; the Thibet goat The wool is sent to Cashmere, where it is spun and dyed Cashmere is situated in the north-west extre been celebrated for the beautiful and valuable shawls bearing its naoats are beautiful creatures, with long, fine, wavy hair, reaching nearly to the ground, so as als The material of which the shawls arehair, next to the skin

CHAPTER VI

CURRANTS, RAISINS, FIGS, RICE, SUGAR, SUGAR CANDY, &C, SAGO, MILLET, GINGER, NUTMEG, MACE, PIMENTO OR ALLSPICE, PEPPER, AND CAYENNE PEPPER

What are Currants?

A kind of sht?

Froo, particularly Zante and Cephalonia; and frorow on bushes like our Currants?

No, on vines like other grapes, except that the leaves are sorapes much smaller: they have no pips, and are of a deep red, or rather black color

When are they gathered, and how are they dried?

They are gathered in August, and laid on the ground in heaps till dry; they are then cleaned, and put into azines, from which they are taken and packed in barrels for exportation

What do you oods for sale from one country to another

What are Raisins?

Grapes prepared by drying them in the sun, or by the heat of an oven

Raisins of Damascus, so called from the capital city of Syria, near which they are cultivated, are very large, flat, and wrinkled on the surface; soft and juicy inside, and nearly an inch long Raisins of the sun, or jar raisins, so called fro imported in jars, are all dried by the heat of the sun; they are of a reddish blue color, and are the produce of Spain, whence the finest and best raisins are brought There are several other sorts, narape of which they are a, Valencia, &c

In what rapes for raisins, is to tie two or three bunches of theether while yet on the vine, and dip them into a lye made of hot wood-ashes, mixed with a little olive oil This makes them shrink and wrinkle: after this they are cut from the branches which supported them, but left on the vine for three or four days, separated on sticks, in an upright position, to dry at leisure