208 



COTTON -WOOL. 



Letter to LondoH at the rate of freight of £8. 10^. per ton, 



Bombay, . »^ r ' 



6 March 1832. which WBs paid to the ship Earl of Eldon, here- 

 after noticed, the remittance would have been only 

 one shilling and eight-pence farthing per rupee. 



8. The thirty bales of the same kind of cotton 

 more lightly packed*, were considered by some 

 dealers to have a better appearance than the close 

 packed ; but others pronounced that the lighter 

 packed seemed coarse. It sold, however, at one 

 farthing a pound above that which had been full 

 pressed, and gave, at the freight of £5. 15^. per 

 ton, a remittance of one shilling and nine-pence 

 farthing per Bombay rupee. 



9. The general opinion here, as well as in India, 

 is, that the press-packing which Indian cotton 

 usually undergoes is not injurious to it : indeed 

 some persons think it rather advantageous, by ren- 

 dering the fibres less subject to be affected by the 

 atmosphere, especially if the cotton be kept in 

 store for a length of time. But the great increase 

 in the charge for freight of cotton when lightly 

 pressed, precludes any prospect of benefit from 

 adopting that method of packing in India, and it 

 is probable that the advance of price experienced 



in this instance might not have taken place if the j 

 quantity had been large. j 



10. Your Commercial letter of the 17th Novem- 



ber J 



* Pounds of Cotton in a ton, per Elizabeth, lighterrpacked, 1( 

 902. 



