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COTTON-WOOL, 



Letter also of the authorities in Salsette, whose particular 



From Bombay, 



30 May 1812. attention was called to the seventh paragraph of 

 your Honourable Court's dispatch. 



40. Your Honourable Court's observations were 

 also communicated to those authorities respec- 

 tively, with directions to inculcate amongst the 

 cotton-growers more attention to the improvement 

 of the quality of that product, particularly in re- 

 spect to cleaning it, as to which it was signified 

 that a small additional expense for the promotion 

 of so beneficial an end would not be incurred with 

 much reluctance. With the samples, manuscript 

 copies of the printed directions for the culture of 

 cotton in Africa, were forwarded, of which accu- 

 rate translations were likewise ordered to be dis- 

 tributed by the Collectors, on all the heads that 

 could be applicable to the rearing of cotton within 

 their respective limits; particularly in regard to 

 the period for picking or collecting it in the most 

 cleanly state after it is fully blown, and its being 

 subsequently freed from all motes, broken seeds, 

 &c., as well as respecting the great care that 

 should be taken to prevent a mixture of the dif- 

 ferent kinds of seed in planting, and the processes 

 for beating the dirt out of the cotton, and of sepa- 

 rating the wool from the seed. 



41. Your Honourable Court will observe from 

 the report from the Collector at Broach, that every 

 attention has been bestowed to promote your 

 wishes in respect to the cleanliness of the kupas, 



or 



