COTTON WOOL. 



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adopt this process in the colonies, the loss of the Letter from 



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spurious matter m weight would be more than at the Hague, 



21 Sept. 1830. 



compensated in the saving of freight alone, and 

 thus immense profits might be got in exchange 

 for cheap and easy labour. But whether my mill 

 would be made use of across the Atlantic or in 

 Europe, its extensive advantages must be obvious 

 on even superficial examination. 



Any further information which you might re- 

 quire on the subject shall be duly attended to ; 

 and should the East-India Company be desirous of 

 having a proper plan, or even of possessing the very 

 machine which yielded my experiments, I beg you 

 will command. My mill having previously given 

 proofs of its efficacy, I shall leave to the liberality 

 of the Company and in your hands, the fixing the 

 amount of my remuneration agreeably to the 

 merits of the invention. 



No. 74. 



Report hy the Company's Warehouse-keeper on 

 Samples sent with Mr.Cobefs Letter. 



Sample^ No. 1, Surat Cotton. Report on 



. ... Mr. Cobet's 



Remark. — Considerable quantities arrive from Letter. 

 India in this impure state. 



Sample, No. 1, Once- cleaned Surat. 

 Not sufficiently clean. The machine used ap- 

 pears to have done very little injury to the staple, 



which 



