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long boles or pods, and with seed tufted at the 

 ends with fuzz. I should have great doubts if 

 there is any real difference in these apparent 

 varieties of the long staple cotton. But, if there 

 is, all who observe, must know that plants, 

 where they have once intermingled their varie- 

 ties, will require attention for a long series of 

 years to disentangle them. 



Subsequently to 1787, as the cultivation of 

 cotton extended and became profitable, every 

 variety of the cotton that could be gleaned from 

 the four quarters of the globe, has been tried, 

 but none of them but one has resulted in any 

 thing useful. Mr. James Hamilton who formerly 

 resided in Charleston, and who now resides in 

 Philadelphia was indefatigable in procuring 

 seed, which he transmitted to his friend, Mr. 

 Couper, of St. Simon's. Mr. Couper planted 

 some acres of Bourbon cotton; it grew and 

 blossomed, but did not ripen its fruit, and 

 perished in the winter. 



Mr. Hamilton sent a cotton from Siam, it 

 grew large, was of a rich purple colour, both in 

 foliage and blossom, but perished also without 

 ripening its fruits. 



The nankeen cotton was introduced at an 



