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they found it to be vegetable growth. In the earlier periods of the Nile people, nothing but linen was used by priests or for embalming. Arrian the historian (d. A. D. 140) cites the importations from the East to Europe of cotton goods, plain and ornamented. The muslins of Bengal were then called Gangitiki, to indicate that they came from the Ganges. The Indian names yet survive in the words muslin named from Moussol, and calico from Calicut. Julius Pollux, in the Onomasticon (A. D. 170), refers to the cotton of India, which he terms byssus, and compares with flax: — The tree produces a fruit most nearly resembling a walnut, but three-cleft. After the outer covering, which is like a walnut, is divided and dry, the substance resembling wool is extracted, and is used in the manufacture of cloth for woof, the warp being linen. Cotton paper used by the gold-beater is mentioned by Theophilus Presbyter about A. D. 800. On the discovery of America by Columbus, cotton fo