COTTON-WOOL. 



171 



No. 64. 



Extract Letter from the Court of T>irectors to 

 the Governor in Council at Bombay^ dated the 

 3d June ]S29. 



Par. 2. Our letter in the Public Department of Letter 



to Bombay, 



the 1 8th February informed you that we had given s June 1829. 

 our renewed consideration to the improvement 

 of the quality of the cotton at present grown in 

 India, and to the introducing new and better 

 species ; and that, in order the more certainly to 

 attain this desirable object, we should endeavour to 

 procure from America various kinds of cotton-seed, 

 together with the most modern and improved 

 machines for cleaning the cotton from its seed and 

 impurities. 



3. We have accordingly taken measures for 

 obtaining the machines and seed, and shall for- 

 ward the same to you immediately upon our 

 receiving them. 



4. But in our letter above quoted, we have 

 called your more immediate attention to the care- 

 ful cultivation of cotton raised from seed of the 

 best indigenous plants of India, such as the Bhy- 

 ratta kupas of Bengal, and the best kinds at pre- 

 sent grown about Surat or Broach. 



5. Following up this part of the subject, and in 

 order to enable us to import into London, with as 

 little delay as possible, a supply of Indian cotton 



fit 



