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USE OF COTTON SEEDS. 
making the place resound with their sharp and 
piercing cries. Men in huge leathern boots were 
staggering under sides of bacon; large, flat carts 
were heaped with brown flitches ; boys were reeling 
under the weight of enormous hams ; and boars’ 
heads seemed to gaze reproachfully at you on shop- 
boards and out of windows. Ip short, the whole 
town was filled with evidences of the thriving trade 
by which the inhabitants gained their living. 
Hearing, as we rambled on, a continuous noise in 
our vicinity, we entered some large, draughty, barn- 
like buildings, where huge ponderous stones, set up- 
right, were kept revolving round and round by 
means of oxen, like horses in a mill. On inquiring 
as to the nature of the operation in which they were 
engaged, we were told that this was the process ot 
expressing oil from the seeds of the cotton plant, , 
which are afterwards formed into oil -cakes for 
fattening cattle. 
The number of furriers’ shops, filled with rich and 
costly furs, is a striking feature in this outlandish 
town. The valuable skins of unborn Asiatic lambs 
