The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary
by Henry Lee
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About this eBook
- Author
- Lee, Henry, 1826-1888
- Title
- The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant. To Which Is Added a Sketch of the History of Cotton and the Cotton Trade
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QK: Science: Botany
- Subject
- Cotton -- History
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 43343
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43343
- Release Date
- July 28, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE VEGETABLE LAMB OF TARTARY; A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant.
- 2.CONTENTS.
- 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 4.PREFACE.
- 5.CHAPTER I. THE FABLE AND ITS INTERPRETATION.
- 6.CHAPTER II. The History of Cotton and its Introduction into Europe.
- 7.APPENDIX. — A ( p. 2 ). Sir John Mandeville. — B ( p. 8 ). Odoricus of Friuli. — C ( p. 11 ). Sigismund von Herberstein. — D ( p. 14 ). Julius Cæsar Scaliger. — E (p. 21 ). Jans Janszoon Strauss, otherwise Jean de Struys. — F (p. 28 ). John Bell of Autermony. — G (p. 52 ). The Three Black Crows. By Dr. John Byrom. — H (p. 71 ). The Destruction of the Alexandrine Library.
- 8.INDEX.
- 9.Transcriber’s Notes
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