A Comprehensive History of the Woollen and Worsted Manufactures: And the Natural and Commercial History of Sheep, from the Earliest Records to the Present Period, Volumen2Smith, Elder and Company, 1842 |
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A Comprehensive History of the Woollen and Worsted Manufactures, Volumen2 James Bischoff Vista de fragmentos - 1968 |
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Página 426 - Happy the yeoman's house into which one of these Dutchmen did enter, bringing industry and wealth along with them. Such who came in strangers within...
Página 369 - The fore-legs straight from the breast to the foot ; not bending inward at the knee, and standing far apart both before and behind ; the hocks having a direction rather outward, and the twist, or the meeting of the thighs behind, being particularly full ; the bones fine, yet having no appearance of weakness, and of a speckled or dark color.
Página 306 - There is also a second or other variety of Angora, or shawl, goat besides those generally described. This goat has an unchanging outer cover of long, coarse hair, between the roots of which comes in winter an undercoat of downy wool that is naturally thrown off in spring or is carefully combed out for use. A remarkably fine species of this breed exists throughout the area to which the white-haired goat is limited...
Página 407 - by fastening his bamboo rollers at a due distance from " each other on the turf by wooden pins. The balances " of the geer he fastens to some convenient branch of the " tree over his head: two loops underneath the geer, in " which he inserts his great toes, serve instead of trea...
Página 425 - Liberty is a lesson quickly conned by heart ; men have a principle within themselves to prompt them in case they forget it. Persuaded with the promises, many Dutch servants leave their masters, and make over for England. Their departure thence (being picked here and there) made no sensible vacuity, but their meeting here altogether amounted to a considerable fulness. With themselves they brought over their trade and their tools, viz., such as could not (as yet) be so conveniently made in England.
Página 369 - The breast should be wide, deep, and projecting forwards between the fore legs, indicating a good constitution, and a disposition to thrive.' Corresponding with this, the shoulders should be on a level with the back, and not too wide above; they should bow outward from the top to the breast, indicating a springing rib beneath, and leaving room for it.
Página 369 - The quarters long and full, and as with the fore legs the muscles extending down to the hock ; the thighs also wide and full. The legs of a moderate length, the pelt also moderately thin, but soft and elastic, and covered with a good quantity of white wool, not so long as in some breeds, but considerably finer.
Página 407 - There is not so much as an expedient for rolling up the warp. It is stretched out at the full length of the web ; which makes the house of the weaver insufficient to contain him. He is therefore obliged to work continually in the open air ; and every return of inclement weather interrupts him.
Página 425 - Fleece, wherein, indeed, the fleece was ours, the golden theirs, — so vast their emolument by the trade of clothing. Our King, therefore, resolved, if possible, to reduce the trade to his own country, who, as yet, were ignorant of that art, as knowing no more what to do with their wool than the sheep that wear it, as to any artificial and curious drapery ; their best clothes then being no better than friezes, such their coarseness for want of skill in their making. But soon after followed a great...
Página 369 - The orbits of the eye — the eye-cap, or bone, — not too projecting, that it may not form a fatal obstacle in lambing. The neck of a medium length, thin towards the head, but enlarging towards the shoulders where it should be broad and...