Cotton Plant
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An 1846 article from The Commercial Review (Vol. 1, No. 4) on the history and trade of the cotton plant. It covers early mentions of cotton in India, Greece, Rome and Egypt, including the microscope evidence that Egyptian mummy cloth was linen. It then traces the introduction of cotton into Europe and its history in the Americas, including Sea Island cotton and the cotton gin. The final sections give statistics on world growth, United States exports, and British and French imports, with several pages of tables, and discuss the varieties and future prospects of American cotton.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- April 1846
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 23
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