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eOTTOX WOOL. 



Letter to sorts of foreign cottons in different situations as 



Bombay, 



18 Feb. 1829. to soil, and particularly in districts bordering on 

 the sea-coast. 



13. We shall endeavour to procure various 

 kinds of cotton-seed and transmit them to you for 

 this purpose. 



14. After what has been stated in the preceding 

 paragraphs, it cannot be necessary to go into any 

 lengthened course of observation, to impress upon 

 our Governor in Council the importance of the 

 object of our present despatch ; and we confidently 

 rely upon your zealous co-operation, in carrying 

 into immediate effect the experimental measure 

 Avhich we have directed you to institute on the 

 part of the Company. 



15. It will still be expedient that the native 

 growers of cotton should be incited to the im- 

 provement of its cultivation, and particularly to 

 the rendering it more merchantable by careful 

 cleaning; to which end you will give publicity to 

 your undertaking, and distribute the seed gratis, 

 or at a low price, as you shall see right ; and also 

 award premiums, or other encouragement, to such 

 natives as may exhibit the most approved speci- 

 mens, not less in quantity than five Surat candies, 

 whether grown from the seed supplied to them 

 from the Government farm or from the seed of 

 the indigenous sorts. 



16. At the same time, it appears desirable to 

 obtain the advantage of the application of Euro- 

 pean 



