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COTTON-WOOL. 



stance of a ffreat proportion of the seed havino-been 



to Bombay, . . 



9 April i8i7. damaged. Considering, therefore, the important 

 advantages which may be derived from a success- 

 ful cultivation of the Bourbon cotton within our 

 territories, we have pleasure in observing, that you 

 were not discouraged by the little success of the 

 first attempt in Kaira from directing further trials 

 to be made in that district and in the Broach per- 

 gunnah, on a soil where the facilities of irrigation 

 might obviate the difficulty, in a season of drought, 

 of bringing the plants to maturity. As an experi- 

 ment seems to have been made with more success 

 by the Assistant Collector in charge of Caranjah, 

 it occurs to us that similar experiments may with 

 propriety be continued, both in that island and 

 Salsette, or in our recently acquired possessions of 

 Fort Victoria and Malwan, on the slopes of hills 

 sheltered from violent winds from the sea, and 

 also on other grounds possessing the means of 

 artificial irrigation, and also sheltered from violent 

 sea winds, if such situations can be found. 



No. 37. 



Extract Letter fro?n the Governor in Council at 

 Bombay to the Court of Directors, dated the 20th 

 December 1817. 



Letter from Par. 52. lu our dcspatch dated the 18th Decem- 



Bombay, i i . /> 



20 Dec. 1817. ber 1816, we notified our intention of ascertaining 



by 



