COTTON- WOOL. 



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any circumstances in his connection with his em- i-etter 



, . . , from Bombay, 



ployer which gives him motives either of sympathy so May 1812. 

 or dependence, which might excite in him suffi- 

 cient attention to the work he is engaged in. It 

 is different in manufactures, where the labourer 

 employed is under the more immediate inspection 

 of the master. 



58. The cultivators in small farms of the soil of 

 Salsette are stated to evince such a deplorable 

 apathy and indifference to their lot in life, as to 

 operate as a bar against prevailing on them to 

 attempt, on their own account, a cultivation with 

 which they are unacquainted. They have barely 

 the means of providing for their families and 

 paying their rents; they are incapable of enjoying 

 any satisfaction which arises from new and success- 

 ful pursuits ; and it would be difficult to persuade 

 them to hazard even the miserable provision they 

 are now certain of, in the hope of obtaining a 

 better one by any new or speculative undertaking. 



59. If Government, however, should still be 

 desirous of attempting the cultivation of cotton 

 on this island, the plan they recommend was, that 

 a small spot of well-chosen ground (not more than 

 one acre) should be placed under the direction of 

 a person of competent knowledge, zeal, and ac- 

 tivity in agricultural pursuits, and that he should 

 attend to the cultivation of cotton according* to 

 the directions sent from England. One-half of 

 the land devoted to this experiment might be 



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