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COTTON-WOOLr. 



No. 73. 



Extract Letter from Mr, Cobet to the Right 

 Honourable Charles Grant, dated at the Hague, 

 2\st September 1830. 



Letter from J have ^ot coDstructed in this country a verv 



Mr. Cobet ^ ^ ^ ' 



at the Hague, simple machine for the purpose of cleanino^ the 



21 Sept. 1830. ^ ^ ^ . . 



most inferior qualities of raw-cotton from all its 

 seeds, husks, and other impure substances with 

 which it usually arrives mixed up, from the dif- 

 ferent colonies and from all the East-Indies in 

 particular. The instrument upon which I per- 

 formed my experiments would require one-horse 

 power, but might be made to work by either hands, 

 bullocks, and other animals, or by water, wind, 

 steam, &c., as circumstances would prescribe. Of 

 Surat the above mill would cleanse about two 

 thousand pounds within twelve hours by passing 

 it but once, as has been the case with sample 

 No. 1, and of which also one is added in its origi- 

 nal state. Of Surinam, however, (as contained in 

 No. 2, which had to undergo the same operation 

 twice,) but half the quantity can be obtained 

 within the mentioned time. 



The loss in weight would average from eight ] 

 to thirteen per cent., but the increase of value in 

 the market by this improvement would be from 

 forty to sixty per cent. 



if the Honourable East-India Company were to p 



adopt 



