The table exhibiting the progress of the cotton crop printed inthe January number of the review1 shows the rapidity with which this plant increased.

Tide-water South Carolina and Georgia produced practically all of the cotton crop in 1791, and the total was but two million pounds. By 1821 the South Atlantic states produced one hundred and seven teen million pounds; and five years later, one hundred and eighty millions. But how rapidly in these five years the Southwest gained on the older section is shown by its total of over one hundred and fifty millions. What had occurred was a repeated west ward movement: the cotton - plant first spread from the sea-coast to the uplands, and then, by-the beginning of our period, advanced to the Gulf Plains, until that region achieved supremacy in its produc tion.

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