ISBN: 9781130660012

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RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 74 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: . . . From this circumstance, some persons have doubted whether the cotton, now found wild and cultivated in America, was not conveyed thither from the East Indies, subsequent to its discovery by Columbus; but, in Gomaras history of the conquest of the West Indies by the Spaniards, it is expressly stated that the corselets of the natives were made of cotton wool, and that their priests were clothed in white robes, like surplices, made of cotton cloth. Pietro Martire also states, that the natives sleep on certain mattrasses made of the cotton of gossampine trees, which grow plentifully in these islands. This cotton, adds he, the Spaniards call algodon. A still more convincing proof that certain species of cotton are indigenous in America, is afforded by Mr. Cummings discovery of raw cotton and of manufactured cotton in the ancient tombs of the natives of Peru, specimens of which I am enabled to exhibit this evening, by the kindness of Dr. Robert Brown. In the latter half of the seventeenth century, cotton began to be produced for the supply of the European markets in the West Indies, in Brazil, and in the Dutch, French, and Portuguese colonies in Guiana; and probably about this time the culture of the fine cotton of Siam was introduced into America, as being of better quality than the indigenous species, or than those that had been transplanted from the Levant. But the European demand was as yet very languid, and was chiefly supplied from the Mediterranean; the average annual importation of cotton into Great Britain from all sources, between the years 1700 and 1705, not amounting to 1, 200, 000 pounds weight. I have not access to any documents for ascertaining the importation of cotton into Great Britain, from the year 1705 to 1780, but up . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<

ISBN: 113066001X

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