COTTON-WOOL. 



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whereas Mr. Forbes considered it would be of the Letter 



from Bombay, 



first importance, particularly if Government con- soMayisis. 

 tinned their exports of cotton to Europe, to insist 

 upon all the villages delivering an equal propor- 

 tion of that description. 



54. Mr. Forbes having recommended, in his 

 above noticed report, the annual importation of 

 a quantity of cotton-seed from Bourbon, the wool 

 of which is so much superior to any other, toge- 

 ther with an account of the cultivation, and par- 

 ticularly the processes in use there for gathering 

 and cleaning it, an application was accordingly 

 made to the Government of that island in con- 

 formity to his suggestion. 



55. A supply of cotton-seed having been lately 

 forwarded in consequence of this requisition, it 

 has been distributed among the Collectors at Surat 

 and Broach, with copies of a memoir regarding 

 the culture of the article at Bourbon received at 

 the same time, with authority to take measures for 

 sowing it to a small extent under each Collector- 

 ship on the Company's account, delivering any 

 surplus which may remain to such of the ryots 

 upon whose care they may depend for affording it 

 a fair trial. 



56. With respect to the observations contained 

 in the seventh paragraph of your Honourable 

 Court's letter, in regard to rearing cotton on Sal- 

 sette, it will appear from a report from the Judge 

 and Magistrate, and Acting Collector on that 



island, 



