thrashing with flails COTTON CULTURE. The expansion of the cotton culture has been marvelous. In 1784 eightbales of cotton sent to England from Charleston, S. C, were seized by the cus-tom-house authorities in Liverpool, on the ground that so large a quantity could … Sugar Reflnery, Philadelphia not have come from the United States. The progress of its culture was slow[until the invention of the cotton-gin in 1793, by Eli Whitney, a machine whichby means of saw-seeth disks was adapted to separate rapidly the fiber from theseed. It did the work of many persons].…
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