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COTTOiSf-WOOL. 



No. 39. 



ExTiv^CT Letter from Mr. Gilder to Captain A, 

 Robertson, Collector of the Eastern Zillah north 

 of the Myhee, Kaira, 



Sir: 



Letter to I have the pleasure to forward you a short 



le Collector . n i i, n n 



at Kaira, report ou the experiment oi the culture or a tew 

 begahs of Bourbon cotton, over which, from the 

 peculiar interest attaching to the result and the 

 facility my vacant hours afforded, I offered my 

 superintendence. On a former occasion I sub- 

 mitted my opinion of the causes that led to the 

 failure in the attempt to introduce this valuable 

 cultivation into the Western Districts : the ob- 

 stacles I considered exclusively physical, arising 

 from peculiarity of soil, and the unprotected expo- 

 sure of the plant to the intensity of the hot 

 winds. 



2. I stated on this occasion, that both the soil 

 and the climate of the districts lying between the 

 Subermuttee and the Myhee promised a more 

 favourable result. The greater portion of the soil 

 is of the light sandy nature recommended by the 

 cultivators of the Island of Bourbon, and the 

 general division of the country into enclosures, 

 protects the plant materially from the influence of 

 the hot winds, which are considerably milder than 



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