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COTTON-WOOL. 



Report on latter lu the vicinity of Miserepoor. The export. 



Cotton Tiade, p i , , i i 



30 April 1802. of late, has not, however, been great, because 

 nearly the whole of the raw material has been 

 worked up by the weavers on the spot in the ma- 

 nufacture of piece-goods ; for it is to be observed, 

 that every foreign ship importing bullion into Cal- 

 cutta, brings this bullion principally for the pur- 

 pose of exchanging it for the piece-goods manu- 

 factured in the territories lately acquired by his 

 Excellency the most noble the Governor-general 

 in Council. It is not easy to ascertain the quan- 

 tity of cotton hitherto produced in the territories 

 lately ceded to the Honourable Company ; but as 

 private merchants, under the former Government, 

 did actually induce the inhabitants to cultivate 

 above 200,000 begahs of land therein with the 

 indigo plant, certainly the Honourable Company's 

 Commercial Resident, assisted by the fostering 

 hand of his Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, 

 could persuade them to bring a similar, or even an 

 additional quantity of land into cultivation with 

 the cotton-plant. 



The estimated produce of a begah of land (one- 

 third of an acre) is from two to three maunds. 

 Kopans or cotton with the seed, generally pro- 

 ducing from fifty to seventy-five pounds of clear 

 cotton, 250,000 to 300,000 begahs of land may, 

 therefore, be requisite to produce 200,000 maunds 

 of clean cotton. 



By encourageuient to the inhabitants of the late 



ceded 



