 | Encyclopaedia - 1850 - 368 pages
...%V\CUY 5rE9ro«!/x,eW : 4 it seems, however, to be explained by another passage, where he says " they possess a kind of plant, which instead of fruit produces...of a finer and better quality than that of sheep, and of these the natives make their clothes." s 65. The lawless invasion of India by Alexander the... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Agriculture - 1850 - 688 pages
...account of the Indians, he says, " They possess a kind of plant which, instead of fruit, produces a wool of a finer and better quality than that of sheep. Of this they make their clothes." Pliny, in his description of the island of Tylos, in the Persian Gulf, mentions... | |
 | American Geographical and Statistical Society - Geography - 1852 - 610 pages
...India. Among other remarkable things which he describes, he relates " that the people of that country possess a kind of plant, which instead of fruit, produces...of a finer and better quality than that of sheep, and that of this they make their clothes." The cultivation and manufacture of cotton began in India... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 pages
...speaks of the manufacture among the Indians as if it were in a very advanced state. He says : — " They possess a kind of plant, which instead of fruit produces wool, of a finer and bettor quality than that of sheep ; of this the Indians make their cloths." Nearchus, the admiral to... | |
 | J. G. Dudley - Cotton - 1853 - 104 pages
...India. Among other remarkable things which he describes, he relates " that the people of that country possess a kind of plant, which instead of fruit, produces...of a finer and better quality than that of sheep, and that of this they make their clothes." The cultivation and manufacture of cotton began in India... | |
 | Decorative arts - 1859 - 380 pages
...grows wild in many parts. Herodotus mentions, in describing the wonders of India, that this people " possess a kind of plant, which, instead of fruit,...produces wool of a finer and better quality than that of the sheep ; of this the Indians make their clothes." The Greek historian implies that this plant was... | |
 | Herodotus - Greece - 1859 - 524 pages
...173 They possess likewise a kind of plant, which, instead of fruit, produces wool,4 of a finer anil better quality than that of sheep: of this the natives make their clothes. OVit. The last inhabited country towards the «outh is Arabia, the only region of the earth which produces... | |
 | 1861 - 798 pages
...grows wild in many parts. Hcrodotus mentions, in describing the wonders of India, that this people "possess a kind of plant, which, instead of fruit,...produces wool of a finer and better quality than that of the sheep ; of this the Indians make their clothes." The Greek historian implies that this plant was... | |
 | Natural resources - 1861 - 414 pages
...Christian era, expressly states that the Indians possessed a plant which, instead of fruit, produced wool, of a finer and better quality than that of sheep, of which they made their clothes ; so that cotton culture, and the manufacture to which that culture has... | |
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They possess, likewise, a kind of plant, which, instead of fruit, produces wool of a finer and better quality than that of sheep. Of this the Indians make their clothes. 
