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The Inhabitants about the River Amazenes make Stuffs of this of di- 
vers Colours, with which they cloath themfelves and Traffick. Pagan 
and D’ Acagua. 
The Fundus of the Flowers is purple, the Tips yellow. 
Vafquez di Coronado ap. Ramaus. p. 3.p. 362. Hakl.p. 378. found Cots 
ton in a Country North of Mexico, difcover’d by him. Leigh ap. Purchas. 
Lib, 6. cap. 12.p. 1251.18 Guiana, Fernando Alarchon in Cevola; where it 
was not us’d for want of Weavers. Ramuus. p. 367. p. 3. 4p. Hakl. 433: 
Well, ap. Hakl. p. 2. p. 129. in Benin. Sir Walter Rawleigh. p, 34, aD. 
Hakl. 641, and p.9§. ap. Hakl. €60. and Keymis, p.3. Hakl. p, 675. in 
Guiana. 
Chilton ap. Hakl, p. 456. p.3. tells us that Mantles of Cotton-Woo! 
painted throughout with Works of divers and fine Colours, cloath 
the Indians ot Tlaxcalla and other Cities about Mexico; that in 
Chiapa. p. 459. they pay their Tribute in it, being found in great 
Store ; and that they in Campeche pay likewife their Tribute in It. 2. 461, ib. 
Hawks ap. Hakl. p.3. p- 465. found Cotton about Mexico in great Plenty 
us’d for Garments by both Indians and Spaniards. 
Wilfon met with this Shrub in Graze ap. Purchas. lib. 6, p-1264. Turner 
in Sancta Lucia. ib. 1265. Robert Harcourt ap. Purchas. lib, 6. cap. 16. p. 
1275. in Gutana, Schnirdel among the Cario’s. lib. 7. cap. 4. p. 1351. ib. 
Marco Polo Veneto ap. Purchas. lib, 1. cap. 4. p: 70. In Mus, or Meridin, not 
far from Moxul, or Georgia. 
It is found in the Province of Cotam. Polo ap. Purchas, lib. 1. p. 74, 
Bengal. p. 94. and p, 106, in Guzaratte, where is Store, and the Tree being 
fix Fathoms high, endures twenty Years, but after twelve Years the 
Cotton is not good to fpin, but for Quilts. 
There is great Plenty of Cotton Cloth in China, for the Country People 
wear nothing elfe but fine Cotton Cloth, whichis more accepted than 
Silks, for here is great Store of Silks, and they are good and cheap. 
Seba(tian Bifcaino Hakl, p. 3.p. 560- | 
Cotton-Wool grows in Guiana, Mafbam Hakl. p.3. p.694. Martin Fer. 
mandex de Enctfa ap, Hakl. p. 3. p.699. found it by the River Maran- 
HOB. 
A great deal of Cotton was brought from Fernambuck in Brafil by Lan 
cafter, when they took. that Place. Hak/, p. 3. p. 708. 
Much. Cotton is in Brafile. Haki. p. 3. p. 787. and at Fernam-s 
buck. Lopez Vaz, 
Bombafin Cotton Trees were obferv’d by Pretty. Hakl. D3. P, Cte te 
Puna in the South-Seas, 
Oviedo in his Summary, p, 321. ap. Eden, and p. 208. found Cotton in 
Hifpaniola, and in his Coronica, lib. 10. ¢. 5. he fays that it grew wild there 
and was much efteem’d of by the Indians. 
Hughes. p. 86. tells us Hammacks are made of it, that its Wood 
burnt, {tops bleeding. p.70. thatCallicoes are made of it, and that it lafts 
three or four Years, one Sort being wild, and the other cultivated. 
Cotton is one of the wealthy Weft India Commidities. Smith. Virginia. 
p.149- Beton. lib. 1. cap. 18, fays, that in the Levant tis fow’d with great 
Profit. 
Ligon found it in Barbados, p, 22. and Clappham. ap. Boyle of Air, p. 178. 
in Tenariffe. 
The Turks wear Cotton Shirts. Rawolfe. cap. 3. lib.1. The Shrubs are 
planted about Aleppo. id. cap. 5. where are great Store of Cotton Manu- 
factures to be fold, and alfo Muffelin : Cotton Cloth comes from a Country 
in Mefopogamia calVd Mufelli. id. ib, ee he faw feveral Acres of Cotton 
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