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COTTON- WOOL. 



Letter from 

 Warehouse- 



No. 65. 



Extract Letter from J, Farish^ Esq., Warehouse- 

 keeper^ to Thomas Williamson., Esq.^ Secretary to 

 Government, Bombay, dated the Ist December 

 1829. 



Par. 4. It is certainly the case, that of late years 

 Bmnb iy' the quality of the cotton from the eastern side of the 

 1 Dec. 1829. Qulpti of Cambay, which was formerly the most va- 

 luable, is much deteriorated, from the careless way 

 in which the kupas is gathered, having fragments 

 of leaf and pod mixed with it, and by the practice of 

 exposing it to the night dews in order to increase 

 the weight. The course pointed out by the Ho- 

 nourable Court will prevent this ; and it may 

 reasonably be hoped, that the prospect of a pre- 

 mium, or enaum, as formerly granted, may induce 

 the cultivators to deliver cotton equal to the 

 thomil cotton of former years. 



No. 66. 



Extract Letter from the Governor in Council at 

 Bombay to the Court of Directors, dated theSlst 

 December 1829. 

 Letter from Par. 55. We have the honour to report the 



Bombay, i i /• • • 



31 Dec. 1829. mcasures we have adopted tor carrying into exe- 

 cution the orders conveyed in the twenty-second 

 to thirty-seventh paragraphs of your Honourable 

 Court's letter dated the 18th February last, for 



establishing 



