150 



COTTON-WOOL. 



Letter to fectlv, if at all, divested of its seeds ; and althouo;h 



Bombay, *' ^ " 



4 Nov. 1829. this experiment was made under the disadvantage 

 of the cotton being old, very dry, and much 

 pressed together, the result seemed entirely to 

 establish the merit of the invention. 



5. The Whitney machine, which it is our desire 

 to introduce into India, has been noticed in the 

 Parliamentary papers of the year 1828, in a report 

 of an American Committee of Commerce, where it 

 is said to be so simple in its construction, and 

 " so easily worked and managed, that the negroes 

 " in the Southern States are employed to work it;" 

 we cannot, therefore, entertain any doubt of the 

 saw-gins being suitable to the process of cleaning 

 cotton by the natives of India. We also conclude, 

 that the Indian workmen will be competent to 

 fabricate such machines for general use ; but, in 

 order to facilitate the bringing them into practice 

 without loss of time, it is our intention to send 

 you some separate sets of the circular saws, which 

 are of iron (not steel), as the only part of the 

 machine in the making of which there can be 

 difficulty. These detached saws will also be useful 

 as patterns for the native smiths ; for the guidance 

 of whom, we propose also to send a complete set 

 of all the other parts of the machine which are of 

 metal. 



6. You will receive with the before-mentioned 

 articles a small quantity of cotton- seed of the 

 growth of Demerara in South America, which 



although 



