COTTON 185 



Mauritius and Nankeen cottons were grown in 



1 80 1, and the produce sent to this country. 

 1799. Nag-pur cotton seed directed to be tried in the 



Circars, and a bounty offered to growers. 

 ,, Dr. Roxburgh, Superintendent of the Botanical 



Garden, Calcutta, grew and described eight 



species of Gossypium. 

 1802-03. Reports received on the cotton trade of Bombay 



and of the Gangetic Doab. 

 1809. Cotton ordered from India. 30,000,000 Ib. received 



in the following year. 

 1810. Samples of Georgian and Grenada cottons sent 



out; also seeds of West Indian and of American 



cottons. Directions sent out for the culture of 



cotton, prepared by Mr. R. Hunt and by the 



African Society. 

 1811. Bourbon seed procured and distributed to 



Collectors of Surat and Broach, with directions 



for cultivation. 

 1813. Mr. B. Metcalfe, a cleaner of cotton from 



Georgia and New Orleans, sent to Tinnevelly 



with saw-gins. 

 ,, Mr. Bruce directed to send cotton seed from 



Persia to India. Seed from Bourbon and 



Seychelles procured. 

 1814. Two or three hundred bales of the best and 



cleanest Toomil cotton directed to be sent 



annually. 

 1816. Collector at Caranja cultivates Bourbon cotton 



there. 

 ,, Drawback allowed " of the whole internal and sea 



duties " on cotton exported to Great Britain. 

 ,, Two improved gins sent to Bombay, one for clean- 

 ing black-seed, the other for green-seed cotton. 

 1817-19. Mr. Assistant-Surgeon Gilder succeeds in culti- 

 vating Bourbon cotton at Kaira. 

 ,, Cotton culture attempted in Circars by Commercial 



Residents, etc. 

 ,, The Court suggest that, in addition to Caranja 



and vSalsette, Malwan should be tried. 

 1818. Satisfactory reoort from Malwan. Pernambuco 



