Report on the agriculture and geology of MississippiEmbracing a sketch of the social and natural history of the state . ^ as 1640. In 1719, it was suggested that the climate of South. i AGRICULTURE. 141 Carolina was favorable for its production, and the firstProvincial Congress of that State, in 1775, recom-mended to its people to raise cotton. Georgia is said, however, to have taken the lead in itscultivation; yet the first shipment of cotton known wasin 1784, when eight bags were seized by the custom-house officers at Liverpool, it not being credited that eventhe small quantity of two thousa
Report on the agriculture and geology of MississippiEmbracing a sketch of the social and natural history of the state . ^ as 1640. In 1719, it was suggested that the climate of South. i AGRICULTURE. 141 Carolina was favorable for its production, and the firstProvincial Congress of that State, in 1775, recom-mended to its people to raise cotton. Georgia is said, however, to have taken the lead in itscultivation; yet the first shipment of cotton known wasin 1784, when eight bags were seized by the custom-house officers at Liverpool, it not being credited that eventhe small quantity of two thousand pounds had beenraised in the United States. Seed was introduced intoGeorgia from Jamaica and Pernambuco in 1786; but thecultivation of the Sea Island variety was not establisheduntil 1789. The Upland, or the Georgia (bowed cotton),was successfully introduced about the same time. Cotton was doubtless indigenous to America, havingbeen found growing wild in Hispaniola and other WestIndia Islands when discovered by Columbus; and at theperiod of the conquest of Mexico by Cortez, the nativesmade large webs, as delicate and fine as those ofHolland. Their other cotton fabrics were
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