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COTTON-WOOL. 



Report on The price depends entirely on the relative prices 



Cotton Trade, ^ i i . i 



30 April 1802. in China, the supposed demand in consequence, and 

 the quantity likely to be produced in Guzerat. 



When the price of cotton at Broach and Surat, 

 as before the year 1790, was from Rs. 80 to Rs. 95 

 per candy, Bengal so far from being able to enter 

 into any kind of competition in regard to the ex- 

 port of cotton, was indebted to Surat for an an- 

 nual importation from thence for its own manu- 

 factures. 



The Guzerat cotton imported into Calcutta from 

 Surat, and particularly such parts of it as were the 

 growth of Ahmood and Jambooseer, were cer- 

 tainly very superior in quality to even the Nag- 

 pore, or any other species of cotton imported from 

 the foreio;n countries on this side of India. The 

 price was, of course, proportionably higher. 



The quantity of cotton imported into the Ho- 

 nourable Company's provinces on this side of 

 India is stated at 450,000 maunds, of which it 

 may be estimated that 180,000 maunds are the 

 produce of the Deccan or various districts as low 

 as Nagpore, from which place the quality of cot- 

 ton imported is superior to the produce of any 

 other districts, and 270,000 maunds from the 

 northward, principally from the aumildary of the 

 raja of Calpee. 



Of 450,000 maunds of cotton imported into the 

 Honourable Company's provinces, 40,000 maunds 

 are annually required for the manufactures in the 



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