COTTON-WOOL. 



183 



letters to the Governor-General in Council and to Letter to 



Madras, 



the Government of Bombay, copies of which are is Aug. isso. 

 sent in the packet for your information and 

 government, so far as they may apply. It is not, 

 however, our wish that you shall establish an 

 experimental farm, as directed at Bombay. 



26. The method of using Whitney's saw-gin 

 not being sufficiently explained in the papers to 

 which we have had access, Ave desired the mer- 

 chants at New York, who provided the gins, to 

 obtain the best information in their power upon 

 this point. The questions put by them to the 

 maker of the gins, with his answers, dated at 

 Columbia 9th December 1829,* will be found in 

 the packet. 



No. 69. 



Extract Letter from the Governor-general in 

 Council^ Bengal, to the Court of Directors, dated 

 the 22d September 1830. 



Par. 123. A copy of these paragraphs, with the Letter from 

 enclosures therein referred to, was sent in original 22 Sep't^isso. 

 to the Territorial Department, that measures might 

 be taken in that department to make the experi- 

 mental cultivation ordered by your Honourable 

 Court with the seeds transmitted. 



124. The 



* Sec Appendix to Collection of Papers. 



