56 COTTON IN THE MADEAS PHESIDENCT. [CH. III. 



advisable to glance at the proceedings of the Planters. 



Mr. Simpson had been transferred to the 

 JtetteTftom Bombay Government, but his place was 

 r""^' ®*-.,, supplied by another American Planter 

 DeoTika. named Einnie, who had been previously 

 Stter^'fsrd^ employed by the Bengal Grovernment. 

 sepi./isis. Accordingly, Mr. Morris was despatched, 

 fiswjfp.'ss"! northwards to report upon the district of 



BeUary ; and Mr. Finnie was despatched 

 eastwards to report upon the district of Madras. 



88 Mr. Morris reports unfavourably of Bellary : his 

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

 Mr. Morris's ^^^ examined the Cotton lands in the neigh- 

 letter, 27th bourhood of the town of Bellary, and those 

 24th Deo., in the talook of Adonie, about forty-three 

 ^45. Pad. miles eastward of Bellary. He reported 

 (1M7), pp. that the soil was Black, and therefore un- 

 413, 414. suited to the growth of American Cotton, 

 which had thrived best on the Eed lands. Again, 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 cli- 

 mate were far better adapted to the growth of Ame- 

 rican 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. 

 Morris died at Bellary on the 18th March, 1846. 



89 Mr. Finnie reports unfavourably of the Madras dis- 

 trict: despatched to Tinnevelly.— Meantime Mr.Pinnie 



had been despatched to the eastern coast, 

 £er Mh^'^ to Pullicarny in the Madras district. His 

 Oct., 1845. report was unfavourable. He had gone 

 UM7)T39™ °^®'' Pullicarny with Mr. Maltby the Col- 

 lector, and found that all the high land was 

 a barren waste, and that all the low land was under 

 water. Accordingly Mr. Finnie was directed to pro- 

 ceed to the district of Tinnevelly in the South, and to 



