Note 391 — Chapter IV · GOATS-HAIR.
Reading edition
Harmer’s Observations, ch. ii. Obs. 36. Dr. Shaw’s Travels, Part iii. ch. 3. § 6. E. F. K. Rosenmuller, Biblische Alterthumskunde, iv. 2. p. 89.
The use of goats’-hair for making cloth among the Moors is mentioned by Rauwolff, Travels, part ii. ch. 1, p. 123 of Ray’s Translation. The herdsmen on the wide plains about Smyrna live in tents of “black goats’-hair.”—C. Fellows’s Discoveries in Lycia, p. 8.