Chapter

 1 I  |      they despatch bales of cotton. By Jove, the future of
 2 IX |  many bodies, especially in cotton, which is nothing more than
 3 IX |    down of the seeds of the cotton plant. Now cotton, combined
 4 IX |    of the cotton plant. Now cotton, combined with cold nitric
 5 IX |    pyroxyle, or fulminating cotton, is prepared with great
 6 IX | facility by simply plunging cotton for fifteen minutes in nitric
 7 IX |   000 pounds of fulminating cotton; and since we can, without
 8 IX |      compress 500 pounds of cotton into twenty-seven cubic
 9 XI |   State which grew the best cotton in all America, produced
10 VII|     the soil of Florida? Is cotton and nitric acid wanted wherewith