COTTON-WOOL. 



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machine were in a great measure owing to the ^^"^',,f^y]" 

 application of manual labour, we resolved upon ^ 

 adopting the plan of working it with bullocks, by 

 means of machinery adapted to the purpose. This 

 plan has not, however, been acted upon, in con- 

 sequence, we regret to state, of the destruction by 

 fire, in March last, of the whole of the saw-gins, 

 and a considerable quantity of cotton-seed, and 

 other stock, at the farm at Danda. The ware- 

 house in which the gins were deposited was de- 

 stroyed at the same time, and as it was erected 

 at the cost of one thousand seven hundred rupees, 

 for the accommodation of the Government, by a 

 private individual, who had agreed to let it for 

 twelve rupees per mensem, we have granted him 

 the sum of five hundred rupees as compensation 

 for his loss. 



35. We have the honour to forward a small 

 box, containing the specimens of cotton cleaned 

 by the saw-gin, which were submitted to the exa- 

 mination of the native merchants at this place. 



No. 98. 



Extract Letter from the Governor in Council at 

 Bombay to the Court of Directors, dated the I5th 

 of Februury 1834. 



Par. 1. We have the honour to acquaint your Letter f.om 

 Honourable Court, that we have consigned to i - f4,'^';'J34 



England 



