COTTON-WOOL. 



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probably capable of furnishino; experimental culti- state of Culture 



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vators with diiierent varieties of the best cotton- Cotton in India, 

 plants, and considering the general opinion which 

 is entertained of the peculiar fitness of the Bom- 

 bay territories for the cultivation of cotton, it 

 would seem to be highly desirable that other kinds 

 than the Bourbon should be tried upon the western 

 side of India. 



The port of Bombay is the general emporium 

 for all the cotton produced on the western side of 

 India, and for much that is grown in the interior. 



If the cotton exported by the Company from 

 Bombay to China in the year 1825-6 be added to 

 the general quantities exported, as shewn in the 

 subjoined account, the total export of cotton from 

 Bombay in that year (being the latest of which the 

 accounts are received in London) would be found 

 to have exceeded sixty millions of pounds, and the 

 total of the exports of cotton from British India in 

 the same year must have been little or nothing 

 short of 100 millions of pounds- weight. 



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