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and whose report upon the several parcels is to i^eff^r <o 



^ ^ Bombay, 



the following effect.* 6 March 1832. 



18. The seventeen bales of thomil cotton marked 

 BBT, provided by the Native Agent attached to 

 the Commercial Residency at Broach, and stated 

 to have been prepared by the common churka but 

 with great attention, is considered to be clean 

 bright cotton of good staple, got up in a superior 

 manner and having very little waste : the present 

 value five-pence halfpenny per pound. 



19. The bale of the same growth prepared by 

 direction of Mr. Pelly,f the acting Commercial 

 Resident, with the Mahratta foot-roller, is clean 

 and fleecy, and resembles American cotton; its 

 present value five - pence three - farthings per 

 pound. 



20. This bale of cotton, as also the instrument 

 peculiar to the South Mahratta country by which 

 it was cleaned, are noticed in your Commercial 

 letter of the 30th June 1831 ; but it is evident that 

 the great expense which attends this method of 

 cleaning cotton (sixty rupees per candy) must 

 prevent its being generally adopted. 



21. The 



* Other opinions have also been obtained as under: 



The seventeen bales clean and good staple for Surats, good 



colour, worth 6d. per lb. 



f Bale cleaned by foot-roller, a very fine specimen as to 



colour and cleanness ; somewhat injured in the staple ; would 



not be approved by the manufacturers for general purposes 



may be worth sixpence per pound. 



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