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tioned defect will naturally render the saw-gin Letter from 



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cotton very unpopular among the native spinners, Etawah to 

 who are not paid by the day but according to the of Trade, 

 quantity of work executed. Whether similar ^ ""-18^2 

 objections to the use of this kind of cotton will be 

 found to exist in England, where the use of machi- 

 nery in cotton-spinning is so general, is a point 

 on which I cannot decide with equal confidence. 

 The very extensive use of the bowed Georgias 

 would lead to a favourable conclusion ; but in a 

 report on the cottons of America which was sent 

 to India by the Honourable the Court of Directors, 

 and copy of which was forwarded to this office by 

 your Board on the 7th August 1818, the Upland 

 Georgia cotton which had undergone the opera- 

 tion of the saw-gin are described as having a 

 defect, arising from the great velocity with which 

 the saws pass through the breast-plate, which gives 

 the fibre such a warp or bow as it never after 

 recovers: and of the New Orleans cotton, it is 

 remarked, Though the fibre of this cotton does 

 not adhere with so great tenacity to the seed as 

 " the bowed Georgias or green-seed, yet the plan- 

 " ters, from the extreme tediousness of having 

 their crop cleaned with rollers, prefer to submit 

 it to the deteriorating operation of the saw-gin, 

 by which its quality is so greatly injured, that it 

 does not brino; so much in the Eno-lish market 

 *' by three-pence per pound as it would other- 

 " wise, if the cotton was separated from the seed 



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