COTTON- WOOL. 



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garden cultivation to furnish any decisive results. Mi. ^Tucker's 



It may be observed at the same time, that the thread 



spun from this cotton was not considered by the 



Indian manufacturers to be by any means equal in 



quality to that obtained from their own native 



cotton, it being estimated by them at eight^ and 



ten per cent, below the value of the latter. This 



would seem to favour the notion that there is an 



essential difference in the fibre of the Eastern cotton : 



nor can it be disputed, that the Asiatic fabrics, f 



from whatever cause, are superior in strength and 



durability to the manufactures which are produced 



from the cotton of America. 



9. The hairati /iZt'/>^,9, although its fibre be fine and 

 silky, and admirably calculated for the manufac- 

 ture of the muslin or thinner fabrics, has the dis- 

 advantage of a short staple, while the wool ad- 

 heres so closely to the seed that it is with difficulty 

 separated ; and this variety is otherwise, perhaps, 

 too costly a production to enter largely into our 

 manufactures. 



10. Although 



I * Brazil eight per cent, worse, Barbadoes ten per cent. Both 

 I plants have, under culture, been found to be triennial (i e. they 

 produce for three years). The shrub will last longer, but is not 

 productive after the third 3^ear. 



f The nankeens of China are, perhaps, the stoutest cloths 

 manufactured from cotton ; and yet we do not know the plant 

 which produces the wool, nor are we agreed whether the colour 

 be natural or artificial. The wool of the goi^sypium religiosum 

 has much the same colour, but it is not supposed that the nan- 

 keens are made from this cotton. 



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