...nemora ^thiopum, molli cancntia lana ? Velleraque ut foliis depectant tenuia Seres ? " Shall I sing of the groves of Ethiopia, hoary with soft wool ;...comb out the delicate fleece from among the leaves?" can surely apply to nothing but a shrubbery of cotton plants.* Dr. Vincent, however, in his learned...

...canetia lana? Velleraque ut foliis depcctnnt tenuia Seres?" "Shall I sing of the groves of F.thiopia hoary with soft wool? And how the Seres comb out the delicate fleece from among the leaves?" In AD 627, in the days of Mohammed, the Arabs wore cotton goods. Columbus found the natives wearing...