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Show Fromisi nci attemptshave lately been made in the cultivation of cotton in ,vri ; Palestine,'. Several" fine plantation . ' . now exist in the valley near Jericho. The Holy Land is, however, not so fertile as it once was, and its small extent ex-tent pi ccludea it from being a powerful power-ful rival against this country for supplying sup-plying cotton to Europe. Egypt aud southern Asia furnished some cotton to England during ikir civil war, but since that closed this cotton trade has declined, as the staple was much poorer poor-er than that from the United States. |