 | Bryan Edwards - 1793 - 520 Seiten
...the moft valuable gifts of a bountiful Creator, fuperintending and providing for the neceflitiesof man. THE cotton- wool which is manufactured into cloth (for there is a fpecies in the Weil Indies, called filk or wild cotton, unfit for for the loom) confifts of two diftinft... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - 1806 - 372 Seiten
...called cotton, is the spontaneous production of three parts of the earth. It is found growing jiaturally in all the tropical regions of Asia, Africa, and America;...superintending and providing for the necessities of man. The cotton-wool, which is manufactured into cloth (for there is a species in the AVest Indies, called silk... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1813 - 434 Seiten
...beautiful vegetable wool, called cotton, is the spontaneous production of three parts of the earth. It is found growing naturally in all the tropical regions of Asia, Africa, and America. The plant, or shrub, is raised from the seed ; at the end of five months, it begins to blossom, and... | |
 | John Lunan - 1814 - 564 Seiten
...vegetable wool, or substance, railed cotton, is the spontaneous production of three parts of die earth. It is found growing naturally in all the tropical regions...and America ; and may justly be comprehended among th« Hios't valnablji gifts of a bountiful Creator, superintending and providing for the necessities... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1816 - 432 Seiten
...beautiful vegetable wool, called cotton, is the spontaneous production of three parts of the earth. It is found growing naturally in all the tropical regions of Asia, Africa, and America. The plant, or shrub, is raised from the seed ; at the end of five months, it begins to blossom, and... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - 1819 - 636 Seiten
...wool, or substance CHAP, called cotton, is the spontaneous production of three parts of the earth. It is found growing naturally in all the tropical regions...be comprehended among the most valuable gifts of a Unmtiful Creator, superintending and providing for the necessities of man. BOOK The cotton-wool, which... | |
 | 1833 - 310 Seiten
...chrysalis state, they turn into dark-coloured moths, and fly away. DUPPA'S Botany. The Cotton-plapt is also found growing naturally in all the tropical regions of Asia, Africa, and America, whence it has been transplanted, and has become an important object of cultivation, in the southern... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 Seiten
...state, they turn into dark-coloured moths, and fly away. — DUPPA'S Botany. The Cotton-plant is also found growing naturally in all the tropical regions of Asia, Africa, and America, whence it has been trans- | i il.-mi ••'], and has become an important object of cultivation, in... | |
 | W. M. Buchanan - 1846 - 768 Seiten
...wool, the produce of the Goasypiwn herbaceum or cotton shrub, of which there are many varieties. It is found growing naturally in all the tropical regions of Asia, Africa, and America. The cloth which is manufactured from this wool is also called cotton. The term cotton is taken from... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds, William Henry Giles Kingston - 1846 - 558 Seiten
...historian of our Colonies fifty years back, " is the spontaneous production of these parts of the earth. It is found growing naturally in all the tropical regions...among the most valuable gifts of a bountiful Creator iiiperintending and providing for the necessities of man." small compared with that of some other tropical... | |
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THAT beautiful vegetable wool, or substance called cotton, is the spontaneous production of three parts of the earth. It is found growing naturally in all the tropical regions of Asia, Africa, and America; and may justly be comprehended among the most... 