96 COTTON IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY. [!ST. SEASON. 



CHAP same driving machinery. Meantime however he intended 

 ' to ascertain if the people would use gins worked by hand, 

 provided the machines were let out on the toll system. 

 Accordingly he asked and obtained three hand gins from 

 Dr. Wight ; two of twenty five saws each and one of twenty 

 saws.* 



132 Three points in the career of Mr. Finnie : the New 

 Orleans Cotton, the Agency, and the Saw Gin, 



It will be seen from the foregoing paras, that the three 

 objects which Mr. Finnie had put forward were connected 

 with the cultivation of New Orleans Cotton, the encourage- 

 ment of the Kyots by purchasing Cotton as an Agent, and 

 the introduction, or rather non-introduction, of the saw gin. 

 Accordingly, in narrating his proceedings the three lines of 

 operations here indicated will be kept distinct as much as 

 possible. Thus, in noticing the proceedings of each 

 season, we shall relate, first, what Mr. Finnie achieved in 

 reference to the cultivation of American Cotton, either by 

 himself or by the Natives ; secondly, what success attended 

 his operations as a Cotton Agent ; and, thirdly, what he 

 actually did as regards the churka and the saw gin. 



133 Cultivation of Cotton: tour to Courtallum under 

 both monsoons, June 1846. It has already been stated 

 that Mr. Finnie reached Tinnevelly too late in the year 1845, 

 to attempt the cultivation of American Cotton during that 

 season. Also that he had been strongly impressed with the 

 opinion, that New Orleans Cotton would grow wherever the 



Mr. Fin- country enjoyed the benefit of both monsoons. Accordingly 

 soth June in June 1846, Mr. Finnie proceeded on a tour to Courtallum 



* 



Return " in the Western portion of the Tinnevelly district, which 



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* These remarks of Mr. Finnie against the employment of the American 

 gin in India were subsequently referred to Dr. Wight, whose reply will be 

 found at para. 170. For the sake of clearness, however, it will be advisable 

 to continue the narrative in exact chronological order. 



