Extra-long Staple Cotton
Pima cotton (Gossypium barbadense), also known as extra long staple, South American, Creole, Sea Island, or Egyptian cotton
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“He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“It is remarkable with what pure satisfaction the traveler in these woods will reach his camping-ground on the eve of a tempestuous night like this, as if he had got to his inn, and, rolling himself in his blanket, stretch himself on his six-feet-by-two bed of dripping fir twigs, with a thin sheet of cotton for roof, snug as a meadow-mouse in its nest.”
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