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portion of the aggregate cost of Indian cotton, BmBbav 

 which is caused by the freight, we see no remedy s June 1829. 

 for this disadvantage, if indeed it be one. 



13. The Bengal cotton is screwed to the density 

 of 1,517 lbs. of net cotton, besides the packing 

 materials, into a ton of fifty cubic feet ; the 

 Bombay cotton, in like manner, to 1,312 lbs. of 

 net cotton in the same space. American cotton, 

 in general, does not appear to have been pressed 

 into bales by machinery, and is possibly not closer 

 than 700 lbs. net cotton to the ton : but, from an 

 inquiry we have made into this subject, we find 

 that a practice has lately been introduced in New 

 Orleans, of packing the cotton into what are 

 termed square bales, which must have been 

 effected by machinery ; and that the price of the 

 freight to Great Britain is somewhat lower for 

 cotton in square, bales than in bags. We have 

 ascertained the density of some of these square 

 bales of New Orleans cotton, now in London, to 

 be 844 lbs. net weight of cotton to the ton of fifty 

 feet. 



14. As a matter of experiment, therefore, we 

 desire that one-tenth part (say fifty) of the bales 

 of cotton ordered in the preceding paragraph be 

 packed in bales of the usual size, but to the 

 density of about 900 lbs. of net cotton to the 

 ton of fifty feet ; so that, instead of compressing 

 363 lbs. into each bale, it will contain about 

 249 lbs. only. 



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