 | Herodotus - Greece - 1858 - 658 pages
...which I have but now described. And further, there are trees which grow wild there, the fruit whereof is a wool exceeding in beauty and goodness that of sheep. The natives make their clothes of this tree- wool.5 107. Arabia is the last of inhabited lands towards... | |
 | Herodotus - Greece - 1866 - 560 pages
...which I have but now described. And further, there arc trees which grow wild there, the fruit whereof is a wool exceeding in beauty and goodness that of sheep. The natives make their clothes of this tree-wool/ 107. Arabia is the last of inhabited lands towards the... | |
 | Herodotus - 1875 - 656 pages
...which I have but now described. And further, there are trees which grow wild there, the fruit whereof is a wool exceeding in beauty and goodness that of sheep. The natives make their clothes of this tree-wool.6 107. Arabia is the last of inhabited lands towards the... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - Great Britain - 1878 - 680 pages
...Herodotus had written, nearly 2,000 years before, 'which grow wild there (in India), the fruit whereof is a wool exceeding in beauty and goodness that of sheep. The natives make their clothes of this tree wool.' 2 But though the use of cotton had been known from the... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - Great Britain - 1879 - 786 pages
...Herodotus had written, nearly 2,000 years before, 'which grow wild there (in India), the fruit whereof is a wool exceeding in beauty and goodness that of sheep. The natives make their clothes of this tree wool.' 2 But though the use of cotton had been known from the... | |
 | Herodotus - Greece - 1880 - 660 pages
...which I have but now described. And further, there are trees which grow wild there, the fruit whereof is a wool exceeding in beauty and goodness that of sheep. The natives make their clothes of this tree-wool.5 107. Arabia is the last of inhabited lands towards the... | |
 | Benjamin Rand - Economic history - 1888 - 390 pages
...Herodotus had written, nearly 2,000 years before, " which grow wild there (in India), the fruit whereof is a wool exceeding in beauty and goodness that of sheep. The 1 " McCulloch," ad verb. Wool; Porter's " Progress of the Nation," pp. 170-175. natives make their... | |
 | Arthur Latham Perry - Economics - 1890 - 630 pages
...years BC in relation to India as follows : " There are trees, which grow wild there, the fruit whereof is a wool exceeding in beauty and goodness that of sheep. The natives make their clothes of this tree-wool." This passage is interesting, as showing that the first... | |
 | Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin - Aryans - 1895 - 502 pages
...cotton plant in his chapter •on India. " There are trees which grow wild there, the fruit whereof is a wool exceeding in beauty and goodness that of sheep. The natives make their clothes of this tree- wool. " Of this same "treewool" (the exact counterpart, by... | |
 | 1896 - 446 pages
...the rice water and the like used in weaving; he who does otherwise shall pay a fine of 12 panas." 2 Theft of cotton thread was made punishable by fines...their clothes of this tree wool."4 His expression "onto Zvkcav itETtoirffieva^5 referring to the clothing of Xerxes's army, is more correctly interpreted... | |
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And further, there are trees which grow wild there, the fruit whereof is a wool exceeding in beauty and goodness that of sheep. 
