254 COTTON-WOOL. 



Letter from 5. From the acting Commercial Resident's reply, 



Bombay, . i • i r» i T_ 



5 Oct. 1833. it appears he did not approve or the scheme oi 

 purchasing kupas from villages and granting re, 

 wards for the finest specimens ; nor did he consider 

 that much permanent improvement was to be ex- 

 pected from such expedients, because, if superior 

 cotton brought (which he thought it would do) a 

 price sufficiently above that of an inferior staple, 

 to compensate for the labour of production, it would, 

 without the assistance of Government, force its 

 way into the market, in quantities proportioned 

 to the demand, and that if it did not do so na- 

 turally, no artificial contrivances would be of much 

 avail in producing such a result. Mr. Pelly, how- 

 ever, entirely concurred in Mr. Martin's opinion, 

 that greater improvements might be expected from 

 attention to the kupas when ripened, than from 

 the introduction of novel plans of cultivation ; and 

 he thought that the object which Government so 

 much desired might be considerably promoted, if 

 the cotton purchased for the China investment 

 were divided into classes and paid for according 

 to its quality ; if jummabundy settlements were 

 made by the Revenue Department much earlier 

 than they usually are ; and if the ryot were allowed^ 

 every facility to remove his kupas when and 

 where he chose, without being compelled to take 

 it to the village barn-yard, where it is stowed away 

 in pits, and often soiled and damaged beyond 

 recovery. 



6. Although 



