Quadrant, mule, 147, 156. R. Red Peruvian Cotton, 30. Reeling, 178. Ribbon Lap Machine, 85, 175. Ring Spinning Frame, 84, 131, 160. Roberts, Richard, 147. "Rocking Day," 116. Rollers, drawing, 121, 128. Roots of cotton plant, 22; medicinal use, 32. Roving Frames, 107. Rovings, 106, 117. Russia in Asia, cotton production in, 57. S. St. Distaff's Day, 116. Santos Cotton, 30. Saw gin, 78. Scutching, 83, 92, 166. Seeds, cotton, 22, 31, 33, 76. Seguro, 47. Senegambia, 63. Shuttle, flying, 120, 137. Sind Cotton, 55. Sizing, 177. Slavery, abolition of, effect on production, 43. Sliver Lap Machine, 85, 173. Sliver, the, 84, 94, 101. Slubbers, 107. Soil, 21. Soils, American cotton, 41. Soudan, cotton production in, 63. South Africa, cotton production in, 18, 63. Species, 21. Spindle, the, 110, 114, 122. Spinning, early attempts, 112. Spinning Jenny, 122, 138. Spinning wheels, 116. Strength of fibres, 30. Sumatra, cotton production in, 63. Surat cotton, 26, 55. T. Theophrastus, description of cotton, 16. Thread, sewing, 9, 181. Turkestan, cotton production in, 57. Turkey, cotton production in, 63. Twist in fibre, 66; in rovings, 109. U. United States, cotton production of the, 39, 40. Unripe cotton, 68, 84. V. "Vegetable Lamb of Tartary," 12. Vine Cotton, 26. W. Wadding, cotton, 77. Warping machine, 177. Water Frame, 131, 162. West Indies, cotton production in, 18, 63. Whitney, Eli. 78. Winding, 111. Winding Chain, 156. Winding frame, 182. Wyatt, John, 113, 121. Z. Zahn, Johannes, 13. THE END. Transcriber's Notes: Passages in italics are indicated by _underscore_. Passages in bold are indicated by =bold=. The following misprints have been corrected: "a" added (page 10; orignial text reads: "...thread ready alike for the sewing machine or the needle of seamstress." "aecording" corrected to "according" (page 36) "produed" corrected to "produced" (page 52) "qnantities" corrected to "quantities" (page 63) "reamains" corrected to "remains" (page 121) "rapily" corrected to "rapidly" (page 125) "to to" corrected to "to" (page 133) "correet" corrected to "correct" (page 157) Additional spacing is intentional to indicate both the end of a quotation and the beginning of a new paragraph or to represent a section break as presented in the original text.