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   GIUSEPPE DEVINCENZI
   vated on the Italian soil, are marked by an ex-cellent quality, and that they have been well cultivated. It frequentiy happens that very great diffìculties present themselves, botli in the at-tempt to acclimatise a new species and to remove the baci methods by which the species under cultivation have become deteriorated. The Italian cottons are as good as those of the United States of America, if we except the long-fibred cottou kuowu as « Sea Island Cotton. » The cottons of the United States are the best cottons in the world, and amongst them the New Orleans cottons, are the most highly esteemed. Now, of the fifty-six qualities of Italian cottons valued by Mr. Wanklyn, more than the lialf, or twenty-nine, were valued either at the same price as, or at a higher price than, the « Middling New Orleans » cotton; forty-four qualities were valued at the same price as, or at a higher price than, the « Good Ordinary New Orleans » cottons, and only one, the most inferior of our cottons, at a price equal to the choicest qualities of the East India cotton (Surat, Broach, and fair) ').
   Rate of wages To ali the previous considerations, we must add that of the low price of labour in almost ali parts of Italy. The daily wages seldom exceed an Italian lira, or frane, for a man, and fìfty centimes for a womau or a boy, and you are aware what excellent labourers the inhabitants of our rural distriets are.
   Populaiiou Our population, moreover, is so abundant as
   to be capable of producing almost auy quantity of cotton. We need only cali to mind that North Carolina, with a population equal to that which is fouml in more than one of our provinces, namely, with 750 000 inhabitants, produces about
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