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COTTON WOOL. 



Letter not cleaned within the premises of the patel or 



to Bombay, ^ 



3 June 1829. other person with whom the Commercial Resident 

 may engage, great care must be taken that the 

 cleaners return back the identical cotton which 

 had been delivered to them. 



10. The quantity of cotton to be prepared as 

 above, which you may be enabled to provide in 

 the season, must be uncertain. If it can be really 

 such as we desire, we should have no objection 

 to the provision being carried to the extent of five 

 hundred bales. Whatever the quantity may be, 

 you will please to consign it to London on hired 

 tonnage, conditioning that the ship shall deliver 

 it to us in the East-India Docks. 



11. The invoice should contain all the parti- 

 culars of charore in detail, too;ether with brief 

 explanations of any items that may seem to 

 require it. 



12. It has at various times become matter of 

 consideration, whether Indian cotton suffers dete- 

 rioration from the pressure which it sustains in the 

 operation of packing by iron-screws. We have not 

 had any very correct means of ascertaining this mat- 

 ter; but, from the opinions we have occasionally ob- 

 tained, it would seem that the cotton is not greatly, 

 if at all, hurt by pressure. American cotton has, 

 however, been imported hitherto in bags" lightly 

 packed, and it may be possible that part of its 

 superiority over Indian cotton may be owing to 

 this circumstance. But lookinj^ to the Islyq-g 



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