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COTTON-WOOL. 



Letter of not actins; in accordance with our ideas, fill up 



to Bombay, , ° ^ 



22 Dec. 1815. with good cleau cotton any vacaut tounagc of our 

 ships which may at any time be at your disposal. 



18. We attach very particular importance to 

 the object of improving the quality and staple of 

 the Indian cotton, so as to render it fit for the 

 general consumption of Great Britain, and have 

 therefore observed with regret that the dangers of 

 navigation have caused you to lose a considerable 

 supply of cotton-seed sent from the Islands of 

 Bourbon and the Seychelles. 



No. 30. 



Extract Letter f}'o??i the Governor in Council at 

 Bombay to the Court of Directors, dated the 24th 

 February 1816. 



Bourbon Cotton-seed. 

 Letter Par. 87. After the observations communicated 



sTpebTs^iT our despatch of the 10th June last, your 

 Honourable Court will learn with regret, that 

 before the receipt of our instructions to the Agent 

 at the Mauritius to discontinue his purchases of 

 Bourbon cotton-seed, he had made engagements for 

 another year's supply, and considering the expense 

 of its conveyance to India would be likely to be 

 greater than would be desirable to incur, since the 

 result of the experiments hitherto made have been 

 so unpromising, we lost no time in instructing 



Mr. 



