INDEX 



399 



' Lint,' a popular name for clean cotton. 

 See under Floss 



' Linters,' trade name, 45 



LINUM USITATISSIMUM, 52 



Listados, cotton used for, 320 



Liverpool, dates of arrival of cottons in, 

 50 ; Liverpool and Manchester Cotton 

 Brokers' Association, 49. See Forester, 

 App. A 



Livingstone, Dr., cotton cultivation in 

 Africa, 23. See under Kirk in App. 

 A 



' Loaf Cotton, 1 263 



Long-boiled cotton of Bohr, 109 



Lotti and Lakor : see Malaya 



Louisiana, wild cotton of, 17 ; intro- 

 duction of, into Siam in 1758, 19, 81, 

 120 ; or New Orleans cotton, 195 



' Low Middling ' = L.M., 47 



' Lowry,' trade name, 238 



Luabo River : see Zambesi 



Lucas, Miss, plantation in South Caro- 

 lina (1739), 19 



Lush, C. (1839), Pernambuco cotton in 

 India, 314 



Lymree: see Gujarat 



Lynhurst : see Australia 



Macao : see China 



Macassar, cotton of, 83, 93 



' Maceio,' trade name for a Brazilian 

 cotton, 45 



Madagascar and Madagascar cottons, 

 116, 122, 131, 135, 141, 216, 228, 247, 

 249, 251, 257, 258, 298 



Madeira, cotton of, 171 



Madras and Madras cottons, 145, 151, 

 216, 228, 252, 258 ; Calicut, 13 ; in- 

 ferior stocks of (Nadam), 128-31 ; 

 superior stocks of (Uppam), 151 ; 

 Coimbatore, 93, 112, 185, 252; Co- 

 conada, 46, ]28; Kurnool, 144; Pala- 

 veram, 126; Tranquebar, 96, 101, 

 252 ; Tinnevelly, 46, 129, 149 ; accli- 

 matised Bourbon, 251 ; trade names 

 ' Tinnevelly,' ' Coconada,' ' Madras,' 

 or ' Westerns,' 46. See also Mysore 

 and Coorg, Nilghiri Hills, &c. 



Magdalena Bay, cotton of, 66 



Maibung Salu : see Philippine 



MaTco, cotton in Egypt, 312 



Malabar, cotton of, 13, 14, 98 



Malaya and Polynesia, cottons of, 83, 

 116, 140, 141, 211, 247, 249, 275, 294, 

 298-9, 311. See Celebes, Labuan, 

 Philippine, &c. 



Malindi : see East Africa 



Malta, cotton of, 156-7, 159, 309 



MALVA, MALVE.E and MALVACEAE, 

 definition of, &c., 52-3, 59, 340, 346, 

 348-9 ; Malvastrum and Malvaviscus, 

 53 



' Manchester Cottons,' historic incidents 

 in trade of,' 12, 17, 19, 37 



Mamim cotton, 296 



Mangrol : see Gujarat 



Manipur : see Assam 



Manias, cotton used in weaving, 320 



Manoulou-aJcecha, 259 



Manila, Ind. vern. for tree cotton, 82, 95 



Manufactures : see under Industry, 

 Fibre, Muslin, Stocking, <fec. Cottons 



Manyti of Varnhagen, 296 



Mao cotton, 69, 70 



Map shown to Cortez, 302 



Maragan cotton, 256, 261 ; ' Maragnan ' 

 of Poiret, 264 ; ' Maranhams,' 45 ; 

 Maranhao, 308, 309. See Brazil 



Maratha Country : see under Deecan 



Margarini, E. Africa, 312 



Martinique, cottons of, 244, 268, 299. 

 See Antilles, also ' Rabinal ' and West 

 Indies 



Mascarene Islands, cotton of, 247, 251 ; 

 Rodriguez, 249, 298 



Masulia, famed for its calicos, 12 ; 

 Masulipatam, fine buckrams of, 14 



' Matthews,' trade name, 239 



Mathi, mathio, Ind. vern. names, 96, 

 131, 132, 150 



Maturity : see Cultivation 



Mauritius, cotton of, 172, 252 



Meares, Dr., 276 



Mediterranean regions, cotton of, 157 ; 

 ancient cotton of, 16 



Meerut : see Agra and Oudh 



Mehemet, Ali (Khedive of Egypt), en- 

 couraged cultivation of cotton, 312 



' Memphis,' trade name, 45 



' Menouffieh,' trade name, 45 



Mercer, John (1850), 38 ; mercerising. 

 See Fibre, also Rawson, &c., in App. B. 



Mesopotamia, cotton of, 157 ; probably 

 indigenous, and cultivated there, by 

 the Saracens, 16. See Asia Minor 



Mexico and Mexican cotton, 181 ; dis- 

 covery of, 17, 18 ; introduced into the 

 Mississippi, 21 ; trade names, 46 ; 

 wild, 73, 170, 192, 205, 242, 259; 

 Carmen Island, 73 ; Coahuila (La- 

 guna desert cotton), 170; Guaymas 

 cottons, 66, 268 ; Mexican influence 

 on cultivated stocks, 193, 305-6 ; 

 rough and red Peruvian, 210-11 ; 

 Uplands, 226-39, 242, 326-7 ; manu- 

 factures of : see under Industry. See 

 also Uplands, Georgia and G. mexi- 

 canum 



' Middling,' Md., ' Middling American ' 

 the standard, 47, 51 ; ' Middling 

 Fair,' M.F., 47 



' Mikur Hills ' cotton, 129. See Assam 



Mill, first Indian cotton, built, 21 



Mineral constituents of cotton : see 

 Chemistry under Fibre 



