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Fourth. That it be recommended to the Go- Mr. Tucker's 



Paper. 



vernment to make choice of situations for such 

 establishments contiguous to the sea, or having 

 easy means of communication with a convenient 

 sea- port, the coast of Tenasserim, and some of the 

 districts on the west side of India, under the Go- ' 

 ment of Bombay, being considered likely to afford 

 suitable situations for the purpose. 



Fifth. That two or more of the machines known 

 under the name of Whitney's saw-gin,* and now 

 generally used in America for separating the 

 cotton- wool from the seed, be prepared and sent 

 out to India, to serve as models ; and that every 

 facility be given to the multiplication of this 

 machine for the use of the Indian growers of 

 cotton. 



Sixth. That it be recommended to the Govern- 

 ment 



in the second year becomes green, and the length and quality of 

 the staple undergo a great change. Upon the whole, however, 

 the green-seed cotton appears to be that which enters largely 

 into the great bulk of our manufactures, and to which our 

 attention should be chiefly directed. » 



* I have endeavoured, but hitherto in vain, to procure 

 Whitney's saw-gin in this country, or a model or drawing of it. 

 I am led to believe that it is only an improvement upon the 

 machine which was made by Messrs. Maudesley, the engineers, 

 and sent out to India in 1814, for separating the wool from the 

 green-seed cotton. A much more simple machine is used for 

 the black seed, to which the wool does not adhere so closely- 

 It is upon the same principle as the Bengal churkhe, but very 

 superior to it in materials and construction. 



