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But with reo;ard to the Honourable East-India Report on 



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Company's adopting this process in the colo- Letter, 

 nies," it should seem that it is not advisable at 

 present to introduce the use of any new machine 

 that has not stood the test of long and successful 

 employment, in some country where cotton is pro- 

 duced and exported in large quantities. Various 

 machines for cleaning cotton have from time to 

 time been sent to India by private traders, which 

 as well as an American one sent by the Company 

 some years ago (under the superintendence of an 

 American planter) have failed of success. Such 

 was also the case with regard to two gins made for 

 the East-India Company by Mr. Maudsley. 



The Court are, however, at present expecting, 

 with deep interest, information from the three pre- 

 sidencies with regard to the result of experiments 

 they have ordered to be made with certain ma- 

 chines obtained from the United States, denomi- 

 nated^ " Whitney's saw-gin." This machine, from 

 its invention in North America some years since to 

 its present improved state, is understood to have 

 been the chief instrument employed in rendering 

 the vast quantities of cotton exported from that 

 country to Britain, in the clean and excellent 

 condition in which it for the most part arrives. 



There is, moreover, a reasonable expectation 

 that this machine may prove suitable to the cotton 

 i of India which adheres to the seed, since it is 

 1 certain that the cotton-wool of the United States, 



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