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peculiarities of their position, by showing the difficulty 

 there is for merchants resident in the capital to c<> 

 contact with the cultivator in the country; for they are a 

 small body, not exceeding forty in number, belonging to 

 about twenty firms, so that each firm has only on an 

 avi-ra^c, two resident members, a number barely suffi- 

 cient for the transaction of local business, and they are 

 moreover, in most cases, the agents of others, whose 

 orders they must comply with and the execution of 

 these orders is always limited to time, leaving them wholly 

 dependent on the cotton to be found at Bombay, what- 

 ever be its quality." ROYLE. 



I will give but a few extracts more to show, even 

 under the indifferent management of parties who were 

 rather pushed to make experiments, than to enter into 

 them with a hearty good will. The Manchester people, 

 who are all anxiety, have done actually nothing beyond 

 scolding the East India Company. Under such state 

 of things, a kind of Punch and Judy struggle, what could 

 be expected? Yet, a few examples of success can be 

 produced, abundantly sufficient to show, that East India 

 will hecome one of the greatest cotton countries in the 

 world. 



Mr. Mercer, the American planter, says, " Dharwar 

 is i-.ore like the Mississippi climate than any other he 

 has met with in India. The elevation modifies the 

 climate, which also feels the influence of both monsoons 

 or rains, so that it never becomes extremely dry, and is 

 r inundated with excessive rains." Mr. -Mercer 

 finds the seed returning to its original Mexican character, 

 instead of deteriorating as in other parts of India. Here 

 the natives, witnessing the success of cultivation on the 



