Cats
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description it appears, that the Persian cats resemble, in colour, those we call Chartreux
cats, and that, except in colour, have a perfect resemblance to the cat of Angora.
Buffon had not seen these "Persian" cats himself, but he was familiar with the Angora in
France and he apparently believed there was no difference between an Angora and a Persian
except in colour (the cat was possibly a black smoke or blue smoke Angora). He named them
"Catus Angorensis".
An apparently now extinct longhaired cat from China was known as the Sumxu, a fold-eared
cat which was reported from the area around Peking, China. It was a longhaired cat with
white fur and pendulous ears. It was described (mostly with regard to its folded ears) several
times in the 1700s, with the final report being in 1938; though evidently extinct it indicates
the presence of longhairs in China.
In the late 18th century, longhair cats with coarser, denser coats, and a stockier build were
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