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UNITED STATES. 



It is a singular fact with respect to this plant, that 

 the influence of the sea air is essential to the pre- 

 servation of the black colour of the seed, and to the 

 length and fine quality of the staple. Repeated ex- 

 periments having shewn, that the seed turns green, 

 and the quality of the wool diminished when p^lanted 

 in the upper country. ...The cotton of the sea-coast, 

 and particularly of the sea-islands of South Carolina 

 and Georgia, is equal to any in the world: it has 

 even brought a greater price at the British market 

 than that of Brazil, which always before was deemed 

 of the first quality. 



The quantity of black seed cotton produced on an 

 acre of land, in a Georgia sea island, is about 200 lbs. 

 in Carolina from 130 to 150 lbs. an acre of upland 

 will produce 300 Ibso of green seed cotton. 



The cultivation of this important article has added 

 greatly to the riches of the southern states. The 

 extension of its cultivation to the present extent, only 

 took place within the last twelve years, and oppor- 

 tunely succeeded the unprofitable and unhealthy cul- 

 ture and preparation of indigo ; for the planters found 

 that after their land had ceased to produce a crop 

 of that plant, sufiicient to make an attention to it an 

 object, the same land would yield an abundant crop 

 of cotton ; thus affording them an useful lesson with 

 respect to the importance of a rotation of crops^, 

 while their income was considerably increased. 



Cotton has come to perfection in Newcastle county, 

 Delaware state, near the southern boundary of the 

 state of Pennsylvania ; and during the revolutionary 

 war was much cultivated : there is every reason to 

 believe that near the sea coast where frost is less 



