COTTON- WOOL. 



17 



It may be inferred from the above and the import and 



^ _ ^ Export Trade 



reports of the different Collectors and Commercial of Calcutta, 

 Residents made on this subject by order of the 

 Governor-General in 1789, that the nature of the 

 soil in Bengal, and other incidental circumstances, 

 must be against the cultivation of this kind of 

 cotton within the Company's provinces. Probably 

 the natives, like prudent fathers of families in 

 Europe and America, never think either of making 

 or growing at home, what can be furnished at a 

 smaller expense elsewhere. 



No. 9. 



Extract Report of the Import and E.vport Trade 

 of Calcutta by Sea, from \st June 1799 to '^\st 

 May 1800. 



Par. 7. It is not very easy even to imagine to import and 

 what extent the export trade of this rich and ofScut'ta^ 

 fertile country might be ultimately brought, should 

 the cultivation of cotton for the China trade, the 

 manufactures of Bengal and export trade to 

 Europe, be encouraged in the Behar and Benares 

 districts and the higher parts of Bengal. 



The weavers at present depend upon the up- 

 country cotton imported into Bengal for seven- 

 eighths of the quantity used in their various 

 manufactures. 



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