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   ticular respecting the « Sea Island cottou, » which it is intended to cultivate, have induced us to dwell 011 this brandi of tlio subject.
   Hithorto we have spoken only of the ordinary, and, if we may use the phrase, the locai eulti-vators of cotton, from whom, at the same time, avo may expect much, if the public opinion of Italy sliall busy itsclf, as it promises to do, with this great question. WLat cao^ be But, in order to perceive what can be effected the G ove in- by associai io ns of capi talists, and what by the "! 1?it i v -i "tf Government itself, it is necessary to enter inlo ciatiou other considerations. Nor do ali the Italian pro-
   vinces included in the zone in which cotton can be cultivated present the same advantages, any more than they cali forth the same liopes. There are provinces wliere the cultivation of cotton can, perhaps, be only temporarily increased or introduced, in cousequence of the large profits obtaiued from other products. There are other provinces in which tliis cultivation may be permanenti y established, and may become the cause and the opportunity for summoning vast regions to a new lite. It is to these last that we must chiefly devote our care. But the want of agricul-tural statistics (which must shortly be supplied) shuts out from us the possibility of examining, with equal care, ali these regions.
   The land on it is happily, in our power to treat of the theloman and .
   Adriatic Seas more important, mdeed the most important, a-mongst ali these regions. The vast countri situateti at the extremity of Italy, along the shores of the Ionian and Adriatic Seas, which exhibited such power and splendour amongst the nations of civilised antiquity, under the uame of Magna Grecia, and which is now included in the two provinces of Calabria, and in those of Basilicata, and of Terra d'Otranto; along that immense coast,