New school history of the United States . ti-cello, in Virginia, after declining, like Washington, a thirdelection. He died on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declara-tion of Independence, on the same day with John Adams, hispredecessor in the Presidency. CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY. 30. The progress of the country under Jeffersons sailing under a foreign flag, for the purpose of ascertaining whether they hadpersons or goods on board liable to seizure, or rendering the v^essel liable to capture. 176 HISTOR V OF THE UNITED STA TES, administration was surprising. Louisiana had been bought. Ohio had
New school history of the United States . ti-cello, in Virginia, after declining, like Washington, a thirdelection. He died on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declara-tion of Independence, on the same day with John Adams, hispredecessor in the Presidency. CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY. 30. The progress of the country under Jeffersons sailing under a foreign flag, for the purpose of ascertaining whether they hadpersons or goods on board liable to seizure, or rendering the v^essel liable to capture. 176 HISTOR V OF THE UNITED STA TES, administration was surprising. Louisiana had been bought. Ohio hadbeen receiv-ed into theUnion. Thepopulationexceededseven mil-lions. Steamhad been ap-plied to rivernavi g a t i o nby RobertFulton.* In-dustry of all kinds was flourishing. The exports had increased sixfold insixteen years, and had risen to $108,000,000. Cotton wasshipped to the amount of sixty-two milHon pounds, f The in-vention or improvement of the cotton-gin by Whitney J enor-mously extended the manufacture and the culture of MONTICELLO. * Robert Fulton (1755-1815) was a miniature painter, and was sent to London to beinstructed by Gilbert West. Hearing- of the experiments of Fitch and Evans, hestudied mechanics and engineering, and constructed a steam-vessel. The success ofhis invention was established in 1807, by a voyage from New York to Albany andback, at the rate of five miles an hour. He afterT\^ards turned his attention to torpe-does and marine batteries. Thomas Carlyle says Fulton derived his scheme fromMillers steamboat on the Thames, in 1793. t The War of the Revolution broke up the trade of South Carolina and Georgia inrice and indigo, which were procured during that period from the East Indies. Theraising and exportation of cotton seem also to have been abandoned, and not revivedfor some time. A Southern representative said in Congress, in 1789 : Cotton wasin contemplation amongst them ; and, if good seed could be procured, he hoped itmight succeed. X El
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