110 COTTON IN THE MADEAS PEESIDENCT. [2^1) SEASOW. 



tween 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 nsed as store rooms. 

 The wheels in the lower room would be connected with 

 the gins in the upper rooms by a single band 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 

 revolutions to one revolution of the saw cylinder, which 

 is efiected 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. Pinnie 

 proposed to effect by passing the under part of the 

 band over the brush wheel, and thus driving it in an 

 M- t f opposite direction to that iu which it 

 Consuitar drives the cylinder. After some little dis- 

 Sept-.^iw. cussion, the erection of the gin-house at 

 Pari.'Eetum Sovacausey on the above plan was finally 

 (1857). p. 364. ganctioned at a cost of 2699 rupees. 

 172 Hire of a temporary Gin-house at Aroopoooottah. — 

 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 gather- 

 ing season for 1847 had passed away. Mr. Finnie, 

 however, had not suffered the time to be lost without 

 some show of effort. He had three hand gins ia his 

 possession, two of twenty-five saw wheels, and one of 

 twenty saw wheels ; and he professed to be still anxious 

 Mr. Finnie's *° assist Dr. Wight in completing the 

 letter, 23rd Court's order for six thousand bales. Ac- 

 Pari.'Eeturn cordingly, about the commencement of the 

 (1867), p. 279. gathering season, he induced the head man 

 at Aroopoocottah to rent him a house at seven rupees 

 (14s.) a month, and a godown at three rupees (6s.) a 

 month, for the purpose of ginning Cotton to complete 

 the Court's order. 



