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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 345

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Zacaria Ebn el A warn, an Arabo-Spanish writeron agriculture and horticulture, of the twelfth century,informs us, that in Arabia the cotton tree grows tothe size of the Armenian apple, and lasts twenty years.It is stated by Malte Brun that the cotton tree growson all the Indian mountains, but its… … Gossypium Arboreum—The Cotton Tree. THE COTTON MANUFACTURE. 293 There is still another tree, of very magnificent growth,attaining the height of a hundred feet, and with apeculiar spreading top, which bears a silky cotton ofmatchless softness, whiteness, and lustre, but of so shortand brittle a…

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