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COTTON- WOOL. 



No. 32. 



Extract Letter from the Court of Directors to 

 the Governor iJi Council at Bombay, dated the \2th 

 June 1816, 



Letter Par. 2. In our letter of 1st November 1811, 



to Bombay, 



12 June 1816. paragraph 7, we informed you that we should 

 endeavour to send out in that season musters of 

 the machines used for cleaning cotton in the West 

 Indies and America, but no such machines or 

 models of them could be found in England ; and 

 when we afterwards procured two from Charles- 

 town, they appeared to be so rude and imperfect, 

 both as to material and efficiency, that we com- 

 mitted them to a very ingenious mechanic, with 

 instructions to make without delay, for each of 

 our presidencies, two gins of an improved con- 

 struction ; but w^e have not until this season been 

 able to obtain them in a finished state. Two of 

 the improved machines, made of metal, are now 

 shipped for your presidency on the Alexander : one 

 of them is adapted to the cleaning of black-seed 

 cotton and one for the green-seed. 



3. The two original wooden machines (one 

 likewise for black-seed and the other for green- 

 seed cotton) have, with two of the metal gins, 

 been sent to Madras. As Mr. Bernard Metcalfe, 

 who in the year 1813 was appointed an Assistant 

 there in the Commercial Department, is well 



acquainted 



