W. W. Chenery of Belmont, near Boston, Massachusetts, is supposed to
have made the next two importations in 1861. No one seems to know
exactly how many goats Mr. Chenery imported or what became of these
lots. Mr. Thompson quotes the Massachusetts Ploughman as saying, "The
first of the two lots, consisting of thirty nine animals, was shipped
from Constantinople on the 26th of March, 1861, and arrived at Boston on
the 15th of May, except two animals which died on the passage. The
second lot consisting of forty one head, left Constantinople on the 6th
of October, 1861, and arrived at Boston on the 25th of November with the
loss of only one on the voyage. In the whole flock, eighty in all, there
were about a dozen males, and all the animals wintered well."
It is generally supposed that Mr. Chenery made another importation in
1866, of about twenty head.
[Illustration: ANGORA GOAT.