122 COTTON IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY. [2 N D. SEASON. 



CHAP, as machinery for shortening labour, or for cheapening it, or 

 L_ for doing it better, had forced its way into other countries, 



even when it had proved a temporary hardship to the 



masses. 



171 Mr. Finnic >s proposition for erecting a Gin-house 

 of two stories : the lower one for the Driving Machi- 

 nery, and the upper one for the Gins. But to proceed 

 with the narrative. It had now been finally arranged that 

 the cattle driving machinery should be tried with the large 

 saw gins, and that manual labour should be tried with the 

 smaller gins. Accordingly it was absolutely necessary that 

 a gin-house should be constructed for their reception. Mr. 

 Finnie had for some time been anxious to erect a gin- 

 Mr. Fin- house. He now proposed that this house should be about 78 

 isf a le oec! feet long by 24 feet broad ; that it should contain six rooms, 

 Return ' three on the ground and three on the upper floor ; that the 

 343. com- room in the middle of the ground floor, and the one in the 



pare his 



D"C "me 1 m iddle of the upper floor, should each be 30 feet long by 20 

 k roa d i n t* ne inside ; and that the four end rooms on the 

 ' 346 ground floor and upper floor should be each 20 feet long by 

 20 broad.* These two stories of three rooms each, were 

 thus to be appropriated. The upper story was intended for 

 the gins, and the ground floor for the driving machinery and 

 storing of the Cotton, according to the following arrange- 

 ment. On the upper story, the two end rooms were to be 

 appropriated to the gins, which would discharge their Cotton 

 into the centre room between them, which was to be called 

 the "lint room." On the ground floor, the centre room was 

 to be occupied by the wheels belonging to the driving 

 machinery, whilst the two end rooms were to be used as 



* This would seem to give a measurement for the whole house of 70 feet 

 long and 20 feet broad, instead of 78 long and 24 feet broad as above 

 indicated. But the difference is accoimted for by the thickness of the 

 walls. 



