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There are feveral other Varieties 

 of this Plant in the warm Parts of 

 the Eaft and Wefl-Indies, where they 

 grow in great Plenty ; fome of which 

 have been obferved by the Curious 

 in Botany ; but others have efcaped 

 their Notice : however, thefe being 

 what I have obferved growing in the 

 European Gardens, I ihall not trou- 

 ble the Reader with an Enumeration 

 of the other Varieties. 



The firit Sort here mention'd is cul* 

 tivated plentifully in Candia, Lemnos, 

 Cyprus, Malta, Sicily , and at Naples ; 

 as alfo between Jerufalem and Da- 

 mafcusy from whence the Cotton is 

 brought annually into thefe North- 

 ern Parts of Europe. It is fown 

 upon tilled Grounds in the Spring 

 of the Year, and cut down, and 

 reaped, in Harveft, as Corn with us. 

 The Ground muft be tilled and fown 

 again the fucceeding Year, and 

 manag'd in fuch fort, as we do the 

 Tillage for Corn, and other Grain. 

 It is an annual Plant, perifhing when 

 it hath perfected its Fruit. 



This Cotton is the Wool which 

 inclofes or wraps up the Seeds, and 

 is contained in a kind of brown 

 Hulk or Seed-veffel, growing upon 

 this Shrub ; for it is from this Sort 

 that the vail Quantities of Cotton are 

 taken, which furnifh our Parts of the 

 World: it is brought from the 

 iflands, where the Natives take 

 great Care of its Culture. There 

 are feveral Sorts of Cotton fold, 

 which chiefly differ according to the 

 Countries from whence they come, 

 and the various Preparations made of 

 them : the firft is the Cotton in the 

 Wool ; that is to fay, that which 

 comes from the Shell, from which 

 only we take the Seed : thefe Cot- 

 tons come from Cyprus, Smyrna, kc. 

 The fecond is the Cotton in the Yarn, 

 which comes from Datnafcus. The 

 Jerufalem Cottons, which are called 



Bazacs, and are the beft which are 

 fold. The fecond and third Sorts are 

 alfo annual : thefe areculti vated in the 

 Weft-Indies in great Plenty. But the 

 fourth and fifth Sorts grow in Egypt ; 

 thefe abide many Years, and often 

 arrive to be Trees of great Magni- 

 tude, from which the Inhabitants 

 are annually furnifhed with great 

 Quantities of Cotton. One of thefe 

 Trees has a purplifb, and the other 

 a yellow Flower; which, I believe, is 

 the only Difference between them. 



The firft Sort, which is what the 

 Inhabitants of the Greet Iflands cul- 

 tivate, produces fmall Pods, which 

 contain but a fmall Quantity of Cot- 

 ton ; therefore is not fo well worth 

 cultivating as fome of the other 

 Sorts ; nor is the Staple of it fo fine. 

 The Sort which produces the largeft 

 Heads, and the fineft Cotton, of any 

 I have yet feen, is the fecond Sort ; 

 but the Cotton of this fo ciofely ad- 

 heres to the Seeds, as to render it 

 very difficult to feparate them from 

 it; which has occafion'd die Inhabit- 

 ants of America fo much Trouble, 

 as to make them inclinable to give 

 up the Culture of this Sort ; but 

 could a Gin be invented, whereby 

 the Seeds could be readily taken 

 out, this Sort of Cotton might be- 

 come a very beneficial Plant to the 

 Inhabitants of Carolina. 



There are fome oiher Kinds of 

 Cotton in the Eajl- Indies, which 

 might be introduced into the Britijh 

 Colonies in America, where they 

 would thrive as well as in their na- 

 tive Soil, and be a national Advan- 

 tage ; for the Cottons produced in 

 India bear a much greater Price, 

 than either the Levant or American 

 Cottons, the Staple being much 

 finer: and fmce the Manufacture of 

 Cottons is at prefent in great Repute 

 in England, and the Wear of them 

 becoiiiC general ; fo, if this Coun- 

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