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this account at all our presidencies, and we are Letter 



to Bombay, 



concerned to say that we have no present prospect s Jan. isn. 

 of any beneficial result whatever : the subject, 

 however, is still under our consideration. 



25. The bale of cotton consigned to us per the 

 Bombay, which in the invoice dated the 22d Au- 

 gust 1815 is described as containing cotton reared 

 from Bourbon seed, has been sold at one shilling 

 and five-pence per pound. The cotton proved a 

 good clean sample of the Bourbon kind, with the 

 staple rather fine and such as would generally be 

 saleable, and worth about two-pence per pound 

 more than the best Surat. 



No. 36. 



Extract Letter fi^om the Court of Directors to 

 the Governor in Council at Bombay^ dated the 9th 

 AprillSll. 



Par. 22. We also take this opportunity of Letter 

 expressing our approbation of the experiments 9 AprTisf? 

 which you have caused to be made, with the view 

 of introducing the culture of the Bourbon cotton 

 into the territories subject to your Government. 

 Although the experiment made in the district of 

 Kaira is represented to have failed in a considera- 

 ble degree, yet the failure may, we think, be attri- 

 buted to the want of rain in the latter part of the 

 season of 1815-16, and to the unfortunate circum- 

 stance 



