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COTTON-WOOL. 



Report on which is a ^vesit point ; but if the operation were 



Mr. Cobet's . . 



Letter. repeated, the result might be doubtful. 



^Sample, No. 2, Impure or Common Surinam, 



There has not been any Surinam cotton of late 

 years in the London market. This sample would 

 formerly have been denominated " waste of Suri- 

 nam cotton." A few bales in every hundred were 

 usually of this kind. The staple is long and pos- 

 sesses strength. 



Sample, No. 2, Twice-cleaned Surinam, 



This cotton is fairly cleaned, but would still 

 require something more to be done before it could 

 be manufactured. The staple is not much im- 

 paired by twice cleaning, owing probably to its 

 strength. 



The manufacturers at Manchester and other 

 seats of the cotton-works have machinery for 

 rendering the wool perfectly clean, so have the 

 candlewick-spinners in London. 



A great quantity of inferior Indian cotton, as to 

 cleanness, is exported from England to Holland 

 and the Netherlands, and it is probable that in 

 those countries they may not yet have the means 

 of cleaning their cotton so well as it is done here. 

 The machine in question may, perhaps, be the 

 best hitherto tried in Holland. 



But 



