. Cotton . inest of silk. Even then, the handkerchief pre-sented to Her Majesty was estimated to have cost in the neighborhoodof thousand dollars. There is little wonder, therefore, that an Englishman, deeply con-cerned at the havoc wrought in the linen and woolen trades of hisnative land, by the intrusion of Indian fabrics in the SeventeenthCentury, should write with some bitterness: Muslins at 50s. a yard,and then the mere shadow of a commodity! While the specimensof these muslins have either entirely disappeared or lie locked, for-gotten, in the vaults of some museum, there is no ques
. Cotton . inest of silk. Even then, the handkerchief pre-sented to Her Majesty was estimated to have cost in the neighborhoodof thousand dollars. There is little wonder, therefore, that an Englishman, deeply con-cerned at the havoc wrought in the linen and woolen trades of hisnative land, by the intrusion of Indian fabrics in the SeventeenthCentury, should write with some bitterness: Muslins at 50s. a yard,and then the mere shadow of a commodity! While the specimensof these muslins have either entirely disappeared or lie locked, for-gotten, in the vaults of some museum, there is no question that theirfineness and charm are not myths of a dim yesterday, but actual facts,and that in them cotton reached its zenith in the worlds commerce. COTTON AND THE NEW WORLD The first natives that Columbus saw when he landed on theIsland of San Domingo not only wore cotton, but presented him withbaskets of fibre, spindles of yarn and pieces of fabric. It was surely [25] A BRIEF NARRATIVE OF A GREAT FIBRE. Aztec girl being punished for poor spinning. America}} MitsdDii ofNatural History Aztec chief at timeof Montezuma. American Museum ofNatural History
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