280 COTTON PLANTER'S MANUAL. 



From the Southern Agriculturist. 



SECTION II. ON THE COTTON GIN, AND THE INTRODUCTION 

 OF COTTON. 



Answers to queries of Hon. W. B. Seabrook of Edisto, S. C., 

 by Thomas Spaldijig, Esq., of Sapelo, Ga. 



SAPELO ISLAND, January 20th, 1844. 



DEAR SIR : Your letter of the 10th instant was received 

 two days ago, and I was gratified at the communication, as I 

 have long wished to be personally acquainted with some of 

 the gentlemen of your immediate district ; your pursuits, your 

 habits, and your opinions, appearing to be in accordance with 

 my own ; and nothing but the continued pressure of a painful 

 disease, of now ten years' standing, has prevented me carrying 

 out my design, by visiting you. 



I will now proceed to answer your queries, in the order in 

 which they are placed ; only begging you to remember, if you 

 notice any indistinctness in my answers, that I have only a 

 few days since recovered from a very severe illness which 

 prostrated both body and mind. 



1st. Eve's Gin was invented by Joseph Eve, who lately died 

 at Augusta, somewhere about the year 1790, in the Bahama 

 Islands, where Mr. Eve then resided. 



Mr. Eve was the son of a Loyalist from Pennsylvania, who 

 had been the friend of Franklin ; and Joseph Eve was himself 

 qualified to have been the associate and companion of Frank 

 lin, or any other; the most enlightened man I have ever 

 known. His gin consists of two pair of rollers, more tban 

 three feet long, placed the one set over the other, upon a solid 

 frame that stands upon the floor, inclined at an angle of about 



