Status Updates From L'impero del cotone: Una st...

We r far remote fr the period when men lived&died, like plant, in the spot where destiny had produced them. But of all the travel originating in curiosity, ambition/the love of lucre, not one can be compared in the importance of its result/extent/the influence which it had exerted, to the travel which industry has imposed upon the wool of a cotton-tree, the metamorphoses of which r as innumerable as our want&desire