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COTTON-WOOL. 



Letter to machines for cleanino; cotton from its seeds and 



Bengal, . . f 



8 July 1829. impuritios, with the view of rendering the produce 

 of our territorial possessions fit for the general 

 consumption of the manufactures of Great Britain. 

 Extract of our letter to Bombay is sent in the 

 present packet for more immediate reference, as 

 also extract of our letter to Bombay in the Com- 

 mercial department, dated 3d June, upon the same 

 subject. 



2. We are in daily expectation of the arrival in 

 London of the cotton- seed noticed in our letter to 

 Bombay, and also of a supply of machines for 

 cleaning cotton ; and it is our intention to send 

 to your presidency a portion of the cotton-seed, 

 together with one or two of the machines. 



3. We advise you at this time of the intended 

 consignment, in order that you may issue such 

 preliminary instructions as to you shall seem 

 proper^ for selecting a favourable situation or 

 situations for instituting, upon the arrival of the 

 seeds, an experimental cultivation of cotton upon 

 a small scale, and we doubt not of your zealous 

 co-operation in carrying this object into successful 

 effect. 



4. We have perused the papers laid before you 

 by Mr. Assistant Surgeon Henderson, commencing 

 4th October 1825, and the subsequent corres- 

 pondence with the Board of Trade thereupon, 

 respecting the cultivation at AUighur of cotton 

 which had been some years previously raised from 



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