62 COTTON IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY. [184549. 



CHAP. New arrangements. The necessity for a rotation of 



-- ! crops having been fully proved, Dr. Wight found it necessary 



" to remove his Farms in Coimbatore to new soil. Before 



however noticing his operations, it is advisable to glance at 



the proceedings of the Planters. Mr. Simpson had been 



Revenue transferred to the Bombay Government, but his place was 



letter from T - i 



Fort st. supplied by another American Planter named Finnie, who 



George, Sth rjr 



k een previously employed by the Bengal Government. 



sept' i845 d Accordingly, Mr. Morris was dispatched northwards to report 

 furn' (184?) u P on the district of Bellary ; and Mr. Finnie was dispatched 

 eastwards to report upon the District of Madras. 



88 Mr. Morris reports unfavourably of Bellary : his 

 death. Mr. Morris reached Bellary in October 1845, and 



Mr. Mor- examined the Cotton lands in the neighbourhood of the town 



ris's letter, 



am? ?4th ^ Bellary, and those in the talook of Adonie, about forty- 

 Pari*. MS- ^ ree miles eastward of Bellary. He reported that the soil 

 p" r i3 ( ,4u? was Black, and therefore unsuited to the growth of Ameri- 

 can Cotton, which had thrived best on the Red lands. A gain 

 the New Orleans Cotton requires a sea breeze, but there was 

 no sea breeze in Bellary. He next proceeded to the Cotton 

 growing district of Dharwar in the Bombay Presidency, and 

 there he found that the soil and climate were far better 

 adapted to the growth of American Cotton, than the climate 

 and soil of Bellary. Mr. Morris however remarked that the 

 Indian Cotton grown in Bellary was superior to the same 

 Cotton in Dharwar. He therefore proposed that a saw gin 

 should be erected in Bellary. The suggestion was approved 

 by the Madras Government, but not carried out. Mr. Mor- 

 ris died at Bellary on the 18th March 1846. 



89 Mr. Finnie reports unfavorably of the Madras dis- 

 Mr Fin trict dispatched to Tinnevelly. Meantime Mr. Finnie 

 eth' s le o l ct r nad keen dispatched to the Eastern Coast, to Pullicarny in 

 ReVuVif "* the Madras district. His report was unfavourable. He had 

 39a! 7) P> gone over Pullicarny with Mr. Maltby the Collector, and 



