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tages, is, that if judiciously prosecuted, it would 

 ultimately be crowned with the fullest success"* 



A sample of Cotton grown at Hazareebagh in 

 1836, from the superiority of its quality, led the 

 Committee of Commerce and Agriculture of the 

 Horticultural Society of Calcutta, to suppose it to 

 be the produce of Sea Island Seed, whereas it was 

 produced from Egyptian Seed. It was valued at 

 Is. 4d. to Is. 6d. per Ib. A sample grown near 

 Bombay was pronounced * quite equal to New Orleans 

 Cotton' Mr. W. BJundell again, a Merchant of 

 Calcutta, in 1856 reported on a sample of Cotton 

 grown by Colonel Hannay in Assam, from accli- 

 mated Sea Island Seed, as follows : 



A. No. 1 Quite suitable for the English market. 

 Staple long and fine, but weak : Worth probably 

 in Liverpool from 15d. to I6d. per Ib. 



In 1857 Mr. Bazely of Manchester, reported on 

 a sample of cotton grown from Sea Island seed 

 on the bank of the Mutla river, (close to the site 

 were it is proposed to create a port for Calcutta,) 

 that it was a most excellent and beautiful cotton, 

 worth in the then state of the market ]9d. per 

 Ib., and that a few weeks before it would have 

 been valued at 23d. per Ib. An experiment was 

 made in Arracan, with similar seed, in I860, the 

 result of which was declared by the Calcutta Horti- 

 cultural Society's Committee to be l a most valuable 

 * Procteding-s Hort. Socy. Transactions VOL. VII. p. 166. 



