COTTON- WOOL. 



101 



No. 48. 



Extract Letter from the Court of Directors to 

 the Governor in Council^ Madras, dated the 25th 

 Jan liar ij 1820. 



The two samples of Coimbatore cotton-wool Leifer 

 described in the letter from your Chief Secretary, o^jYn.^il 

 of the 23d January 1819, and transmitted to us 

 on the Warren Hastings, have been examined by 

 competent judges. 



The sample No. 1, on which extra cleaning had 

 been bestowed, is declared by them to be very 

 good cotton in colour and staple, perfectly clean, 

 and not injured by the operation of cleaning. 

 The sample No. 2, which had been cleaned in the 

 usual manner, is of the same quality and reason- 

 ably clean. The colour of No. 1 is much better 

 than that of No. 2, owing to the extraordinary 

 cleanness. Cotton, like No. 1, would probably 

 produce at our sales one penny per lb. more than 

 No. 2. Considerino; the loss of weioht and the 

 expense that would be incurred here in rendering 

 No. 2 equal to No. 1, the real difference in value 

 may, perhaps, not be less than two-pence per 

 pound. Cotton remarkably clean will not, how- 

 ever, produce its true relative value, until the 

 manufacturers shall be accustomed to receive it in 

 that state, without distrust as to the soundness of 

 the staple. 



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