. New England; a human interest geographical reader. oods both by water and by land,has resulted in developing a manufacturing communityin the state that for its size is unrivalled in the valueof its product. This is what has made Providence,next to Boston, the largest of New England cities. The population of the state is not very evenly dis-tributed. Four-fifths of the people live at the head ofNarragansett Bay and along the rivers that enter rivers are neither large nor long, but theymake a rapid descent from a backlying hill countryand furnish a great deal of water-power. Manufac-t
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. oods both by water and by land,has resulted in developing a manufacturing communityin the state that for its size is unrivalled in the valueof its product. This is what has made Providence,next to Boston, the largest of New England cities. The population of the state is not very evenly dis-tributed. Four-fifths of the people live at the head ofNarragansett Bay and along the rivers that enter rivers are neither large nor long, but theymake a rapid descent from a backlying hill countryand furnish a great deal of water-power. Manufac-turing places are numerous along them, and manyhundreds of thousands of people dwell in the singlevalley of the Blackstone River. The successful manufacture of cotton in Americadates from 1790, when an Englishman who understood The Smallest State 243 the method of manufacture in his homeland, and whohad recently come across the Atlantic, interested someRhode Island capitalists, and started a mill at Paw-tucket. He superintended the making of new ma-. Pawtucket mills beside the Blackstone River chines, and the firm wdth which he was associatedhad for a dozen years the only successful cotton millin New England. In this same vicinity are now someof the largest cotton mills in the world. Before the cotton fibre can be spun into thread ithas to be freed from the clinging black seeds. Thisused to be a very slow process. A negro on one of theold-time Southern plantations could work diligentlyall day picking the seeds out, and only have a poundof cotton to show for his labor. As a result cotton wastoo expensive to be generally used, and very littlewas cultivated. But when Eli WTiitney invented thecotton gin, a great change took place. A modern gin 244 New England can seed fifteen bales in a day, a task which wouldneed several thousand men to accomplish in the oldway. After a bale has reached the mill and been torn open,the machinery first frees the fibre from all dust anddirt and clingi
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