...Christian era, expressly states that the Indians possessed a plant which, instead of fruit, produced wool, of a finer and better quality than that of sheep, of which they made their clothes ; so that cotton culture, and the manufacture to which that culture has...

...period. The celebrated ancient historian, Herodotus, who lived about the year 445 BC, tells us that the Indians " possess a kind of plant, which, instead...of a finer and better quality than that of sheep," and that " of this they make their clothes." The Indian calicoes and muslins — the B latter remarkable...

...the clothing regularly worn by the Indians, for he says : — " They possess a kind of plant, which "produces wool, of a finer and better " quality than that of sheep ; of this the " Indians make their clothes." But for how many centuries prior to this time the Indians manufactured...

...the clothing regularly worn by the Indians, for he says : — " They possess a kind of plant, which "produces wool, of a finer and better " quality than that of sheep ; of this the " Indians make their clothes." But for how many centuries prior to this time the Indians manufactured...

...an act * Herodotus (BC 430), speaking of the inhabitants of India, says, " They possess, likewise, a kind of plant, which, instead of fruit, produces...of sheep ; of this the natives make their clothes." — Herodotus, B. jii. c. 106. was passed prohibiting the sale or wear of printed calicoes. In 1774,...

...who lived more than four hundred years before the Christian era, tells of the Indians possessing " a kind of plant which, instead of fruit, produces...of a finer and better quality than that of sheep." Calico was named from Calicut in India. An immense quantity of cotton is also grown in both North and...

...relates what he observed of their manners and customs ; amongst other things, he says, that " they possess a kind of plant which, instead of fruit, produces...of sheep; of this the natives make their clothes." This was evidently cotton wool. It is probable that, in course of time, cotton seeds were sent into...

...accounts of cotton fabrics in India, but HERODOTUS in his account of the Indians, mentions that " they possess a kind of plant which, instead of fruit produces...of sheep, of this the natives make their clothes." The same author makes no allusion to cotton in Egypt, though he pointedly does to linen ; and no cotton...

...BC, say*. " The inhabitants of India possess a kind of plant, which, instead of fruit, produces woo) of a finer and better quality than that of sheep ; of this the natives make their clothee." The cotton plant is described by Pliny as a small shrub, growing in Upper Egypt, the seeds...

...celebrated (Book 11, c. 105), says that '•they possess a kind of plant which instead of fruit, L_ " produces wool of a finer and better quality than that of "sheep; of this the Indians make their clothes." But, passing by the earlier records and coming down to a later period,...