COTTON-WOOL. 



109 



No. 53. 



Extract Letter from the Governor -general and 

 Council in Bengal to the Court of Directors, dated 

 the ^d August 1826. 



Par. 29. The papers referred to in the margin better from 

 relate to an experiment made by Mr. Assistant- 3 AugfigsG. 

 Surgeon Henderson of this establishment, in the 

 cultivation of Bourbon and some species of Ameri- 

 can cotton, in the Upper Provinces. The object 

 of the experiment in question, as stated by Mr. 

 Henderson, is to obtain cotton at a comparatively 

 low price, capable of being manufactured by Bri- 

 tish machinery into cloths equal in quality to those 

 manufactured from the cotton of America, and not 

 to improve the quality of the cotton for the pur- 

 pose of internal consumption. Small samples of 

 the cotton raised by Mr. Henderson have been 

 received, a report on which by the Sub-Export 

 Warehouse-keeper will be found among the docu- 

 ments relating to the subject above referred to. 

 Larger supplies have been promised, which when 

 they reach the presidency will be disposed of in 

 accordance with the wishes of Mr. Henderson, 

 who is desirous that the specimens should be sub- 

 mitted for examination and opinion to competent 

 persons in England. The adoption of this course 

 would seem to be desirable, in order that your 

 Honourable Court may be enabled to form a judg- 

 ment 



