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COTTON-WOOL. 



Letierto 28. Samplcs of the cotton cleaned with the 



Bombay, 



6 March ib32. cfiurka wcFC shown to a Committee of Native 

 Merchants, together with the samples of the same 

 cotton cleaned with the gin, and their report, 

 dated the 14th May 1831, is, that the saw-gin 

 renders the staple very clean, and would be pre- 

 ferred to the chiirka^ but the sample does not 

 bear the same strength as that turned out of the 

 churha, 



29. The opinion we have obtained in England 

 confirms the report of the second Committee at 

 Bombay. It is found to be clean, bright, hand- 

 some cotton, but very much injured in ginning,* 

 the staple being cut to pieces. Its value five- 

 pence per lb. 



30. We are much disappointed at this result. 

 The particular machine used on the occasion 

 must have been one of the original number we re- 

 ceived from America ; there cannot, therefore, be 

 any question as to its being of a proper construc- 

 tion for use in that country. Nor can we suppose 

 there was any error in the mode of its application 



by 



applied ; staple rather fine, firm, and tolerably long ; a good 

 specimen of useful cotton, certainly worth five-pence half- 

 penny per pound. 



* The other parties who have seen this cotton, report it to 

 be beautiful in respect of colour, staple coarse with a grea^; 

 mixture of verj' short. Not a desirable sort of cotton, being 

 spoiled by the process of cleaning. Value uncertain ; perhaps 

 five-pence half-penny per pound. 



