Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore

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

Lee, Henry, 1826-1888· 3 chapters· 30,324 words

4.--RHIZOME OF A FERN, SHAPED BY THE CHINESE TO REPRESENT A TAN- COLOURED DOG, AND LAID BEFORE THE ROYAL SOCIETY BY SIR HANS SLOANE AS A SPECIMEN OF THE “BAROMETZ,” OR “TARTARIAN LAMB.”--_From the ‘Philosophical Transactions,’ vol. xx., p. 861_ 25

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2. CHAPTER I.

Amongst the curious myths of the Middle Ages none were more extravagant and persistent than that of the “Vegetable Lamb of Tartary,” known also as the “Scythian Lamb,” and the “...

3. CHAPTER II.

In the preceding pages I have referred to the introduction of cotton into the countries north and west of the Indus in so far only as the expressions of old writers relating to...

1. CHAPTER II.

4.--RHIZOME OF A FERN, SHAPED BY THE CHINESE TO REPRESENT A TAN- COLOURED DOG, AND LAID BEFORE THE ROYAL SOCIETY BY SIR HANS SLOANE AS A SPECIMEN OF THE “BAROMETZ,” OR “TARTARIA...