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   1831 .
   1841 .
   1851 .
   1860 .
   lbs. 277 000 (XX)
   » 530 000 000
   » 996 000000
   » 1 500 000 (XX)
   Which is for the lattar year 3 775 000 bales.
   And in 1860, in the United States, the con-sumption exceeded 900 000 bales; thus that country became the principal source whence raw cotton was derived. The rapid growth of that cultivation can only be paralleled by the progress of the cotton manufacture in England; and it is astonishiug that these two branches of commerce, so truly colossal  of the cotton cultivation and the cotton manufacture in the United States of America and in England  should bave attained so rnuch importance during the ordinary course of a man's life. England has exported, during the last thirty years, more than Lst. 800 000 000 in cotton goods, and the cotton crop of 1860 was productive to the United states of more than Lst. 64 000 000. Nothing can more clearly than these tìgures demostrate the fact of the greatness and power of modem nations being chiefly based on certain branches of trade.
   After the United States of America and the Egyp*> East Indies, Egypt is the country which sends to Europe the greatest quantity of raw cotton. Before 1823, Egypt scarcely cultivated cotton at ali. Now the annual exports amount to 46000 000 lbs., and no increasable quantity is consumed in the country itself. Finally, the other state which has recently exported a certain quantity of raw cotton is Brazil. During these last years the Bra-zilian exports reached the amount of 17 000 000 lbs. Ali the other States taken together export nearly the same quantity of cotton as Egypt and Brazil.