...country, thus expresses himself on this point (Herod. Book III. chap, cvi.) : " They possess likewise a kind of plant which, instead of fruit, produces...and better quality than that of sheep : of this the Indians make their clothes ; "2 and Nearchus, the admiral whom Alexander employed to descend the Indus...

...oldest historians, speaking of India in the fifth century BC says, "They (in India) possess likewise a kind of plant, which, instead of fruit, produces wool .of a finer and better quality than sheep, and of this the Indians make their clothes." The industry moved slowly from one region to another,...

...great abundance of gold," made the following remarkable statement. " They possess likewise," he said, "a kind of plant, which, instead of fruit, produces wool of a. finer and better quality than that of the sheep, and of this the natives make their clothes." This was the vegetable wool of the ancients,...

...before the beginning of the Christian era, Herodotus, " the father of history," had written of an Indian plant " which instead of fruit, produces wool, of a finer and better quality than that of sheep," ' and subsequent writers from Nearchus to Pliny inform us that the culture of cotton was widespread...

...Herodatus, who was born 484 years before Christ, regarding the Hindoos, that : "They possess likewise a kind of plant which, instead of fruit, produces wool of a finer and better quality than that of a sheep, and of this the Indians make their clothes." This historian, a most reliable one according...

...a result of his travels : " The inhabitants of India make this clothing of the product of a certain plant which, instead of fruit produces wool of a finer and better quality than that of the sheep." The secret was out. The heritage had fallen and the helplessness was soon made greater...

...gives some obscure hints of such a plant being in use in India. The inhabitants of India, he says, possess a kind of plant which, instead of fruit, produces...of sheep ; of this the natives make their clothes. When describing the corselet of Amasis, he accordingly designated Cotton under the luime of tree-wool,...

...flourished in India in " remote ages. Herodotus writes of the Indians : — 1 " They possess likewise a kind of plant, which, instead of fruit, produces...and better quality than that of sheep : of this the Indians make their clothes." It is obvious from this reference, and from other references to the clothing...

...Herodotus (445 BC) wrote that cotton was the customary wear of the Indians : "they possess likewise a plant which instead of fruit, produces wool of a finer...and better quality than that of sheep : of this the Indians make their clothes." (Herodotus Bk. iii, 106.) Arrianf also wrote, "the Indians wore linen...

...manufacture had reached a high degree of perfection. Herodotus, writing -145 BC, says, " In India they possess a kind of plant, which instead of fruit produces wool of a better and finer quality than that of sheep, and from this the Indians make their clothes." Earlier...