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advanced to enable us to enter here into any nerai Report, 

 observations respecting them. Tinnevelly and ^^^^* 

 Bourbon seed was distributing by every oppor- 

 tunity, and we trusted that a very large quantity 

 of valuable seed would be produced in those 

 experimental nurseries, which would be available 

 for such parts of the Peninsula as experience shall 

 prove were hest adapted to the object which was 

 in view. 



36. We had much satisfaction in noticing the 

 progress that was making in respect to the reali- 

 zation of a cotton investment in Coimbatore. A 

 large quantity was expected to arrive before the 

 setting in of the rainy season, but it was appre- 

 hended not sufficiently early to enable us to trans- 

 mit a muster bale to the Honourable Court on the 

 chartered ship Cather^hie. A very recent letter 

 from Coimbatore holds out a confident expectation 

 of an investment of between 1,500 and 2,000 can- 

 dies of cleaned cotton being available in that 

 district in the ensuing season ; and it was our 

 intention to urge the provision of the article in 

 that district to the fullest practicable extent. By 

 the conclusion of January, a large quantity of 

 cotton would be on hand, ready for exportation ; 

 and when the extent of it shall have been ascer- 

 tained on sufficiently accurate data, we stated that 

 we would have had the honour to request that ap- 

 plication be made to Bengal, to know if there was 



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