1846 47.] MB. FINNIE'S FOUR YEARS IN TINNEVELLY. 



store rooms. The wheels in the lower room would be con- CHAP. 



nected with the gins in the upper rooms by a single band L. 



passing through the wall and floor, at an angle of about 

 forty-five degrees. By this plan the gin would receive 

 the compound motion it required. The saw cylinder and 

 the brush wheel revolve in opposite directions ; the brush 

 wheel with an accelerated motion of about five revolu- 

 tions to one revolution of the saw cylinder, which is 

 effected by proportioning the size of the cylinder and 

 brush wheels. The great desideratum in India was to 

 drive both with one band. This object Mr. Finnie pro- 

 posed to effect by passing the under part of the band 

 over the brush wheel, and thus driving it in an opposite di- 

 rection to that in which it drives the cylinder. After some ^JJJ"^ f 

 little discussion, the erection of the gin house at Sevacausey J^pt. i 5 *?. 

 on the above plan was finally sanctioned at a cost of 2699 tan!' 

 rupees. 



Hire of a temporary Gin-house at Aroopoocottah. 172 



The discussions about the driving machinery and gin- 

 house had commenced about the latter end of 1846, but 

 sanction for the erection of the gin-house was not obtained 

 until September 1847. Meantime the gathering season for 

 ] 847 had passed away. Mr. Finnie however had not suffered 

 the time to be lost without some show of effort. He had 

 three hand-gins in his possession, two of twenty-five saw 

 wheels, and one of twenty saw wheels ; and he professed to 

 be still anxious to assist l)r. Wight in completing the Court's Mr 

 order for six thousand bales. Accordingly, about the com- 

 mencement of the gathering season, he induced the Head 



man at Aroopoocottah to rent him a house at seven rupees 279, 



a month, and a godown at three rupees (6s.) a month, 

 for the purpose of ginning Cotton to complete the Court's 

 order. 



