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History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain : with a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe : a description of the great mechanical inventions, which have caused its unexampled extension in Britain, and a view of the present state of the manufacture and the condition of the classes engaged in its several departments (1835)

Baines, Edward, Sir, 1800-1890 · London : H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson · leaf 34

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are suffi-ciently long, flexible, and tenacious, to admit of beingspun into an extremely fine thread. It grows upon theplant enclosed within pods, which protect it from injuryby dust or weather, until it is ripe and fit to be gathered,when the heat of the sun causes it to expand, and burstopen the… … The fibres of cotton are shewn, by the microscope,to be somewhat flat, and two-edged or triangular, andto be not straight bat contorted;—a construction whichcauses the fibres to adhere to each other, and whichgives warmth to cotton clothing. The fibres of flax, onthe other hand, are straight tubes,…

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