cotton goods. 

 Fig. -2. 



Fij^. 2. Diagram showing imports by European frontiers: B, yarns; C, goods; left 

 side, showing hundreds of tliousands of pouds; right side, thousands of tons. 



The relative amount in weight of imported yarns and goods to that of cotton 

 consumed by spinning mills, is as follows: 



From the above it will be seen that the Russian cotton manufacture during the 

 years above mentioned increased to such an extent that the relative percentage of 

 imports of yarn and cotton scarcely varied, but that the importation of cotton goods 

 gradually decreased, and at tlie end of the seventh decade had sunk into insignificance. 

 During the same period the exportation of Russian goods to Persia and Central Asia 

 was more or less noticeable, and the import of Asiatic cotton increased. 



Having traced the general development of the manufacture of cotton it will 

 be interesting to turn to its detailed characteristic condition for the last fifteen 

 years. 



