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COTTOJV-WOOL. 



Letter to 3. In the Commercial letter of the 3d June 



Bombay, 



March 1832. 1829, wc desired that you would, without waiting 

 for the American seeds, provide a quantity of 

 Broach or Surat cotton to be gathered and prepared 

 with the greatest attention, so as to render it fit 

 for the general purposes of the British manufac- 

 turers; and, as a matter of experiment, that a 

 small portion of such cotton should not be packed 

 to the full power of your iron screws, but be com- 

 pressed into bales of the usual density of the 

 packages imported from the United States of 

 America, which do not contain more than two- 

 thirds of the quantity of cotton packed in India 

 within the like space. 



4. Your Commercial letter of the 17 th November 

 1831, acquaints us, that you had accordingly 

 issued instructions to the Commercial Resident 

 at the Northern Factories, to provide cotton for 

 the English market of the quality we desired ; but 

 you inform us, that owing to difficulty in obtaining 

 from the ryots good kupas, and also on account of 

 a heavy fall of rain which had wetted the cotton, 

 no more than three hundred bales could be ob- 

 tained. 



5. This cotton has been received by the ship 

 Elizabeth, and was sold at our sales in July 

 1831. 



6. The staple of the parcel of 275 bales of 

 Broach thomil cotton (part of the above), which 



was 



