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COTTON-WOOL. 



Letter to extent ; but we cannot trace this matter further, 



Madras, 



18 Aug. 1830. either in the Revenue or Commercial Depart- 

 ments, and consequently are unable to offer any 

 opinion upon it, 



21. We cannot but greatly lament the distress 

 that must be occasioned to the cultivators, who 

 have been many years employed in raising cotton 

 for the Company's China investment. 



22. We have adverted in a preceding paragraph 

 to the importance of improving the cotton- wool 

 of India, so as to bring it into a considerable 

 participation of the general demand in the Eu- 

 ropean market. 



23. With a view to the attainment of this 

 object, we have procured from America, and sent 

 to our Governments of Bengal and Bombay, a 

 supply of cotton-seeds of the species generally 

 cultivated in the North American States of Geor- 

 gia and New Orleans, and cotton-seeds of other 

 kinds, together with a machine which has been 

 lately invented in America for cleaning the cotton 

 from its seeds, called Whitney's saw-gin." We 

 are in daily expectation of a further supply of 

 seeds, and it is our intention to consign part 

 thereof to your presidency, together with two of 

 these saw-gins, which are a very different appa- 

 ratus from the American gin formerly sent to you 

 with Mr. Bernard Metcalfe. 



25. Our views and intentions in respect of the 

 cotton-seeds and the gins, are fully stated in our 



letters 



