 | Botany - 1924 - 494 pages
...(circ. 521 BC) writes as follows : ' And further there are trees which grow there, the fruit whereof is a wool exceeding in beauty and goodness that of sheep. The natives make their clothes of this tree wool'. Also in the same book, Chapter 47, when describing a... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Biography & Autobiography - 1967 - 904 pages
...the flora of India observes: "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." WW How and J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus (2 vols.,... | |
 | Sarah Underhill Wisseman, Wendell S. Williams - Social Science - 1994 - 268 pages
...fabrication were used until the industrialization of India. Herodotus (III: 106; VII: 65) wrote, "In India there are trees which grow wild there, the fruit of...is a wool exceeding in beauty and goodness that of a sheep; the natives use it for making their clothes." Cotton spread westward from India, first as... | |
 | Slafer - Technology & Engineering - 1993 - 496 pages
...Christ. He quotes Heredorus (484-402 BC) as follows: "There are trees which grow wild there (India) the fruit of which is a wool exceeding in beauty and goodness that of sheep." Brown [10] deducts from these early writings that not only did the Hindus grow cotton and use it in... | |
 | Herodotus - History - 1996 - 772 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.111 107. Arabia is the last of inhabited lands towards... | |
 | R. J. Forbes - Heating and ventilation industry - 1965 - 284 pages
...whether it survived SENNACHERIB'S experiments long after 694 BC HERODOTUS tells us (423) : "In India there are trees which grow wild there the fruit of...is a wool exceeding in beauty and goodness that of a sheep, the natives use it for making their clothes" and indeed "the Indians" (in Xerxes' army) wore... | |
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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. 
