1190 Nurma or C handed Cotton. [No. 132. 



Agra and Bombay ; but our duty cannot cease even with the thorough 

 completion of that work, and I trust that as the finances of the state 

 improve, a sense of its importance will arrest the favorable consideration 

 of an enlightened Government. 



6th. The Government of Bombay, from its proximity to these pro- 

 vinces being interested in these discussions, I have deemed it my duty 

 to forward a transcript of the present Despatch and the correspondence 

 to which it relates, for the information of the Honorable the Governor 

 General in Council of that Presidency. I have, &c. 



(Signed,) C. M. Wade, 



Resident. 

 (True copy,) 

 (Signed.) R. N. C. Hamilton, 



Secretary to the Government, N. W. P. 

 Indore Residency, Camp Islamnugger, the 24th November, 1842. 



(Copy.) 

 No. 2 in No. 4013 of 1842. 



No. 331 of 1842. 



Prom Captain J. Abbott, Assistant in Nimar, to Lieut. Colonel. Sir 

 C. M. Wade, K. C. J5., Resident at Indore, dated Mundlaisur, 

 ?>0th September, 1842. 



Sir, — In reply to your letter and its enclosure of the 13th April last, 

 relating to the Nurma (Mahalie) cotton, I have the honor to forward 

 for the information of the Asiatic Society, all the particulars I have 

 been able to collect regarding it. There seems great probability, that 

 it may be utterly lost from the world in the course of a few years, un- 

 less Government or some Society interfere to rescue it. 



2. The mamoodies of Chundairee, so far as I can learn, were consi- 

 dered unequalled by any other manufactures, in itself a strong argu- 

 ment for the surpassing fineness of the Mhahlie cotton of which they 

 were woven. I believe there is little of the cotton soil of Nimar that 

 would not produce it in more or less abundance, could a market be 

 found for it. 



