COTTON-WOOL. 



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althoiig"h it is not unknown in India, we arc Letter to 



Bombay, 



desirous should be planted as a renewed experi- 4Nov. 1829. 

 ment. It is of the black-seed kind, like the Sea 

 Island, of which the wool readily parts from the 

 seeds, and probably will not require the application 

 of a saw-gin. This kind of cotton is cultivated 

 with Q-reat success in the Brazils. 



IL We transmit in the packet the following 

 papers having reference to the culture of cot- 

 ton, viz. 



1. Remarks on the culture of cotton in the 

 United States of America, which we have re- 

 ceived from our Agent with the cotton-seeds. 



3. Statement of the best method of culti- 

 vating New Orleans cotton, received in like 

 manner. 



4. Extract of Captain Basil Hall's Travels in 

 North America, so far as regards the cultivation 

 of cotton. But we must remark, that this au- 

 thor's statement of the mode of cleaning cotton 

 by what he denominates Whitney's saw-gin, is 

 not applicable to the machines now sent to you, 

 but evidently refers to another American gin, 

 probably like that which we sent to India several 

 years ago. 



12. We are strongly impressed with the opinion, 

 that nothing but attention and perseverance is 

 required to make Indian cotton-wool a productive 

 article of export to Europe, and there is no 

 commercial object connected with our Indian 



possessions 



