COTTON-WOOL. 



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cotton, of the best construction at that time in Letter to 



Bombay, 



use in the United States of America, and we also is Feb. 1829. 

 engaged the services of a person who had long 

 resided in Georgia and was skilled in the use of 

 them ; but the object failed of success. We 

 understand, that the excellent condition* in which 

 American cotton is now brought to market, is 

 owing to the almost exclusive use of a machine 

 of more modern invention called Witney's saw- 

 gin, which is represented to be so simple in its 

 construction and so easily worked, that the clean- 

 ing of the cotton, which was formerly performed 

 by separate tradesmen, is confided to the manage- 

 ment of slaves. We shall supply you with a 

 number of Witney's saw-gins as soon as they can 

 be procured. 



12. Although it is our desire that your attention 

 should be chiefly given to the improvement of the 

 native cotton, which we have particularly specified, 

 and to the introduction of the upland American 

 cotton, we see it right to suggest to you the 

 expediency of further attempting, on a small 

 scale, in different parts of the territories under 

 your Government, the cultivation of all the finer 



sorts 



* Tlie American cotton is not only free from any admixture 

 of seeds, but is also divested;, in the most complete manner, of 

 broken fragments of the pods and other extraneous matters, as 

 well as of discoloured and damaged heads. Indian cotton, on 

 the contrary, is greatly mixed with both. 



