COTTON-WOOL. 



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zemindary of Benares, and the remainder for the Report on 



*' ^ Cotton Trade, 



manufactures in Bengal, Behar, and Orissa. so April 1802. 



If the quantity of cotton imported does not ex- 

 ceed 450,000 maunds, the price will be so high as 

 not to admit of an export from Bengal by sea of 

 any considerable quantity ; but the reverse is the 

 case when the import is 600,000, as will be seen 

 by the exports of the present season. 



The average annual cost to the Mirzapore mer- 

 chants, of cotton, at Jallore, has been somewhat 

 less than nine rupees per maund of ninety-six 

 pounds. Any attempt to ascertain the price which 

 the cultivator received from the original purchaser, 

 or of the profit attendant on rearing cotton in pre- 

 ference to any other article, would be so vague and 

 indefinite, as to be unworthy observation. The 

 leading fact is, that the cultivator did not receive 

 more for his cotton than nine rupees per maund. 



So long as the Honourable Company's subjects 

 in the zemindary of Benares, Behar, Bengal, and 

 Orissa, were obliged to rely for their manufactures 

 on the cotton the produce of foreign countries, it 

 was of little consequence from whence this impor- 

 tation took place. 



By the late cession of territory from his High- 

 ness the Nawaub Yizier^ the Honourable Company 

 are come into possession of the three districts of 

 Currah, Carah, and Etawah. 



These three districts have always produced a 

 considerable quantity of cotton, particularly the 



latter 



