Cuar. XIV.] SOIL OF THE COTTON-DISTRICT. 275 
showered her bounties on the inhabitants of this 
part of the Chinese empire with no sparing hand; 
the soil is not only the most fertile in China, but the 
climate is capable of rearing and bringing to perfec- 
tion many of the productions of the tropics, as well 
as the whole of those found in all the temperate 
regions of the globe. 
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