But neither Mr. Miller nor Mr. Whitney were the kind of men who give up easily.
Mr. Miller wrote that he would give all his time, thought, labor, and all the money he could borrow to help.
"It shall never be said that we gave up when a little perseverance would have carried us through," he said.
About this time bad news came from England.
The cotton, you remember, was then all sent there for manufacture.
English manufacturers now claimed that the cotton was injured by the gin.
This was in 1796.
Miller and Whitney had thirty gins working in different places in Georgia.
Some were worked by cattle and horses.
Others were run by water.