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COTTON-WOOL. 



No. 12. 



Extract Report on the Private-Trade between 

 Europe, America, and Bengal, from \st June 

 1796 to 'dlst May 1802. 

 Private-Trade Par. 9. The principal increase to London, as 

 -operAmfrka, before Stated, has been in the article of piece- 

 meS^isok goods. Only a very small proportion of the cot- 

 ton with which these cloths are manufactured is 

 grown in Bengal, the remainder is imported from 

 the Deccan, from the aumildarry of the rauje 

 of Calpee, or of various other parts of the Mah- 

 rattah country. 



No. 13. 



Extract Letter from the Court of Directors to 

 the Governor in Council at Bojnbay, dated the 

 mh March 1801. 

 Letter Par. 39. After a perusal of the proceedings re- 



to Bombay, ^ t i • i t-» i i 



18 March 180L lerrcd to, relative to the Rhaudaterra plantation 

 under the superintendence of Mr. Brown, we ap- 

 prove of your determination to continue the same 

 upon its present footing. Twelve months from 

 this time will complete the period at which, in 

 Mr. Brown's opinion, the plantation will be in so 

 productive a state, as not only to defray its cur- 

 rent charges, but also to produce a profit, by which 

 the sum expended therein will be in a course of 

 gradual reimbursement; we shall then be able to 



appreciate 



