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COTTON-WOOL. 



Letter to 21 . The fiftv-one bales of cotton marked A* are 



Bombay, 



6 March 1832. part of a contract which you entered mto with a 

 Native Merchant at Ahmednugger, named Buswunt 

 Sing', the price given to him being 115 rupees per 

 Surat candy for the cotton delivered at the presi- 

 dency. This parcel is of fair staple, but being 

 rather stained, is less valuable on that account, 

 and is estimated at five-pence per pound. 



22. The six bales marked D, which you received 

 from Dr. Lush,f the Superintendent of the Botani- 

 cal Garden at Dhapooree, and which a Committee 

 of Native Merchants considered to be very good, is 

 pronounced here to be fleecy, and somewhat resem- 

 bling the bale cleaned by the Mahratta foot-rolier, 

 but rather yellow in colour and short in staple : 

 the present value five-pence farthing per pound. 



23. The twenty-one bales marked F were raised 

 at the experimental farm, and consist, like the rest, 

 of cotton produced from native seed. 



24. These twenty-one bales have been cleaned 

 by the American saw-gin, under the direction of 

 Mr. Martin, the person whom you appointed to 

 succeed Mr. Finey. 



25. We find in paragraph 22 of your Revenue 



* Fifty-one bales, Buswunt Sing, good staple, but tinged 

 with brown bits which are perished ; clean for Indian cottons ; 

 worth five-pence halfpenny per pound. 



f Dr. Lush's cotton, good bright colour, with a yellowish 

 tinge, quite clean, and remarkably well got up ; firm and heavy 

 in the hand, good sound staple, but not fine; worth five-pence 

 three farthings per pound. 



