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   GIUSEPPE DEVINCENZI
   The Meditar- Ali the cottons spun in Europe carne from w^rRlndi^d the Medi terra nean and from the West Indies. It is supposed that the Genoese were the first who brought raw cotton into England, as they were, generally, the importers of the article in its nia-nufactured state. In 1783, there carne to England, for the first time, raw cotton from the East Indies, to the amount of 114133 lbs.; and in 1791 the United States of America ex-ported 189 316 lbs. We know that at that time England annually consumed a million and a half of pounds of cotton for the manufacture of candles. die* EftSt In chief export trade in raw cotton from
   the East Indies had always been with China and England; but until 1834, the English imports were in general very small and scarcely deser-ving to be taken into account. After 1834, England began to receive from the East Indies a constanly-increasing supply of cotton, which in the following years was of these amounts:
   1835 ...... lbs. 38 000 000
   1840 74 000 000
   1850 100 000 000
   1856 170 000 000
   1857 253 000 000
   1858 197 000 000
   1859 , ...... » 164 000 000
   1860 . 182 000 000
   Which is for the latter year 510 350 bales.
   The progress of the cultivation in the United States of America may be collected from the following figures, which indicate the scale of the quantity of cottons imported from these States into Europe during the following years:
   1801...... lbs. 21000 000
   1811...... » 62 000 000
   1821 , . » 125 000 000