COTTON-WOOL. 



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The Court subsequently obtained from the Report. 

 United States several consignments of the seeds 

 of the best kinds of cotton cultivated there, and 

 six of the machines for cleaning cotton, known as 

 "Whitney's Saw-gin/' with the latest improve- 

 ments.* These served as models for twelve gins, 

 which were carefully made in London, and for 

 twelve sets of the iron-work only, intended to be 

 mounted in India. 



The seeds, machines, and iron-work, were for- 

 warded to the three Presidencies in the followino- 

 manner. 



* Extract Papers relative to American tariff, laid before 

 Parliament in 1828.— <* Whitney's cotton-gin has hardly been of 

 less importance, generally, than Arkwright's machinery. With- 

 out the first, or something like it, the present supply of cotton 

 could hardly have been obtained." 



