Note 27 — Chapter III
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From 1716 to 1770 the cotton manufactured in this country annually averaged under two and a half million pounds weight. From 1771 to 1775 it was four million seven hundred thousand pounds. From 1781 to 1785 it was eleven million pounds. From 1791 to 1795 it was twenty-six million pounds; and from 1795 to 1800 it was thirty-seven million pounds.