The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant. / To Which Is Added a Sketch of the History of Cotton and the Cotton Trade

Chapter 16: Transcriber’s Notes

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An exploration of a medieval fable about a purported plant that bears lamb-like offspring, tracing how the story was recorded, illustrated, imitated, and explained over time. The author evaluates travelers' accounts, botanical specimens, and fabricated objects that fueled belief, offers critical interpretation and debunking of the myth, and then presents a concise history of cotton and its trade, with supporting appendices, illustrations, and an index.

Transcriber’s Notes

Page 24, footnote [14]: The footnote anchor was missing in the source document, anchor [14] has been inserted where it seems to fit best.
The original language has been retained, including inconsistencies in spelling, except as mentioned below. Inconsistent lay-out has not been changed either.
Page 102, ... he returned to Holland in 1681: this seems unlikley in the context, possibly the year should be 1651.

Changes made to the original text:
Footnotes and illustrations have been moved.
Some wrong or missing punctuation has been corrected or added, some minor typographical errors have been corrected silently.
Several index entries have been changed to make their spelling conform to that used in the text.