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   lisatiou; in others, from the scantiness of their population: iu others, linai ly, fromf their limited extent of territory,  either will be incapable oo ever becoming the chief sourees for the supply of raw cotton trare incapable of becoming so at the present moment. Of ali hese different regions the Portuguese possessions are those, perhaps, in which the cultivaton of cotton might, with the greatest facility, be carried on. In Al-giers, the Freuch Government employs ali possi-ble means to foster the cultivation of cotton, but encounters obstacles in tbe high price of labour. The largest cotton crop hintherto obtained in Algiers  that of 1861, only amounted to 158 642 kilogrammes. Egypt indeed, is able, in no slight degree, to increase its present cultivation. In Southern and Central America the production of cotton is generally impeded by the politicai cou-ditions of tliose States, which, though hearing the naine of republics, are a prey to anarchy and to military despotism; and in certain American soj]s  such as British Guiana and Barbadoes, the greatest amount of profit is obtained from sugar and other species of produce. In Brazil there is a great defìciency of labourers. The other countries mentioned cannot produce cotton in great abundance. In Europe, fìnally, Russia pos-sesses oply a small tract of territory capable of producing cotton. In reference to European Turkey, we can but repeat what has been al ready observed about the civil and politicai conditions of Asiatic Turkey; and again, Portugal, Greece, the loniau Islands, and Malta, can only yield very small quantities. Spain is capable, in its Southern Provinces, of growing cotton to a large extent, if there were found means of turning to account this source, as well as the numerous other sourees of wealth which Spain possesses in