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renovated, and the cotton becomes finer. There are 

 every year two crops, one in the spring and another 

 in the autumn., Mills are employed to separate the 

 cotton from the seed ; after which it is packed up in 

 sacks, being well moistened and strongly compressed, 

 The spinning, weaving, and dying, of this valuable 

 material, provides employment and support lot great 

 numbers of people ; and the cotton trade, considered 

 m all its branches, is esteemed of great importance 

 both to the old and new world. 



To describe, or even to enumerate, the beauties and 

 the wonders of the. vegetable kingdom, would far ex- 

 ceed -our limits ; and indeed, it \\oukl scarcely be 

 possible to exhaust the subject. No part of the crea- 

 tion is embellished with more splendid ornaments, of 

 diversified with greater variety. 



To form just ideas of the diversified scenery which 

 vegetation exhibits, you must, my dear Sir, transport 

 yourself in imagination into dillerent countri*h and 

 ciimates, and view the different liveries which nature 

 wears. You must make an ideal excursion iuto the 

 northern regions, and view the immense forests with 

 which many parts of them are covered. From thence 

 you must traverse in thought the more temperate cli- 

 mates, and survey the waving crops and ripening' 

 harvests ; the delightful vinyards ; the meadows, 

 embellished with flowers : and the fertile pastures 

 covered with various kinds of cattle : ail exhibiting 

 an endless variety, and flourishing under the influ- 

 ence of genial skins. But to view nature in her most 

 gorgeous attire, you must proceed to the tropical re- 

 gions. There a luxuriant vegetation displays rtsclf in 

 all the splendour of florid magnificence, in all the 

 variety of forms, and all ,the brilliancy of colours. 

 Forests adorned with various kinds of trees ; flowers 

 exhibiting a thousand diilerent tints, and -flourishing 

 in constant succession, under an invigorating sun, with- 

 out ever being checked by the chilling cold of win- 

 ter, astonish and delight the eye. 



Could these id%al peregrinations, my dear Sir, be 



