4 COTTON- WOOL. 



Letter Surat cottoD, ov cottoii of the produce of Beno;al 



to Bengal, ^ ^ ^ 



20 Aug. 1788. of a similar quality, you will, therefore, concert 

 with our servants at Bombay the means of carry- 

 ing this resolution into effect, and furnish us with 

 every needful information respecting the article, 

 as to its growth, quality, cost, the quantity which 

 is capable of being procured for exportation, the 

 political and commercial effects that would arise 

 from such exportation, and any other particulars 

 you may deem it necessary we should be informed 

 of 



No. 2. 



Extract Letter fiwfi the Court of Directors to 

 the Goverjjor iii Council at Bombay, dated the ist 

 January 1789. 



Par. 4. The attention your Accountant, Mr. Do- 

 binson, manifested to his duty in bringing before 

 you the mode of calculating the tonnage of cotton, 

 merits our approbation. In our letter of the 22d 

 April last, we treated on this subject pretty much 

 at large, and not being then in possession of the 

 extent of the reduction you represented you had 

 been enabled to effect, we communicated some 

 particulars that had come within our knowledge 

 on that subject. As the standard you mention to 

 have adopted very considerably exceeds the mea- 

 surement stated in our former letter, which we have 

 reason to think is tolerably accurate, we must 



desire 



Letter 

 to Boml)ay, 

 1 Jan. 1789 



