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COTTON-WOOL. 



Letter from " by the Cylinder or roller-gin." These facts 



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Etawahto Certainly lead me to inter, that the action or the 

 of Trade, saw-gin is detrimental to the staple of cotton, and 

 June 1832. ^^^^ ^j^^ high price of labour in America is the 



sole cause of its general use in that country. 



4th. Such, gentlemen, are the unfavourable re- 

 sults of my experiments, and such the inference 

 which I find it necessary to draw from them. Con- 

 sidering, however, the great importance, both to 

 England and this country, of introducing a more 

 speedy, efficacious, and economical method of 

 separating the cottons of India from the seed and 

 freeing it from other extraneous impurities, I am 

 unwilling to recommend the abandonment of the 

 saw-gin till I have tried the other machine which 

 the Export Warehouse-keeper has been directed to 

 forward to Calpee. The driving apparatus which 

 has been prepared under the scientific superin- 

 tendence of Captain Forbes, may be found more 

 effective than that which I have set up at the 

 Factory ; and if, as stated by Mr. Patrick of Fort 

 Gloucester, in the second paragraph of his letter 

 to the Secretary to the Agricultural and Horticul- 

 tural Society, under date the 2d November 183 J, 

 five men could, with the aid of the saw-gin, 

 separate 144 pounds of clean cotton per diem, the 

 moderate cost of the article might, as in the case 

 of the American cottons, more than cover any loss 

 arising from the deterioration of its staple. 



5th. It has occurred to me, that the machines 



which 



