268 



COTTON-WOOL. 



Letter prove, that the fibre is very much miured by the 



from Bombay, ^ . J J J 



5 Oct. 1833. process of cleaning by means of this machine ; so 

 much so, indeed, that by the last advices received 

 from the Supra-cargoes at Canton, it appears that 

 cotton so cleaned is quite unfit for the process of 

 manipulation which it always undergoes in China, 

 and that if the quantity sent last year to Canton 

 had been separated from the rest of the investment 

 it would have been quite vmsaleable. 



32. Whether this result is owing to the method 

 of working the machine, or to the weakness of the 

 fibre of the cotton, has not been clearly esta- 

 blished, though the Superintendent of the experi- 

 mental farm inclines to be of the former opinion ; 

 but to whatever cause attributable, we fear that it 

 will be useless to continue to employ the saw- gin, 

 as the advantage of having the staple well cleaned 

 is, we think, much more than counterbalanced 

 by the injury which its fibre suffers during the 

 process. 



33. We consider, however, that it would be 

 satisfactory to remove the doubts which are still 

 entertained on the subject of Whitney's machine, 

 and we therefore request that your Honourable 

 Court will have the goodness to favour us with a 

 detailed account of the mode of working it in 

 America, in order that it may be compared with 

 the method pursued in India. 



34. As it was supposed that the defects of this 



machine 



