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COTTON- WOOL. 



Letter from England on the Lady Nugent, Lucas Percival, 

 15 Feb. 1334. Commander, one bale of white-seeded peren- 

 nial cotton, and one bale of American Upland 

 (grown as perennial), the produce of the perennial 

 farm at Seegeehulee, in the southern Mahratta 

 country. 



2. Our object in sending the white-seeded pe- 

 rennial, which is a new description of cotton, is, 

 that your Honourable Court may ascertain the 

 opinion of the merchants in London as to its 

 quality, and the sort of manufacture for which it 

 may be best adapted. The merchants of Bombay 

 are of opinion, as your Honourable Court will 

 observe from the accompanying letter to the ad- 

 dress of our Warehouse-keeper, that the cotton is 

 of a superior quality, that the staple is good, and 

 that it is worth about one hundred and eighty 

 rupees per Surat candy. 



To James Taylor, Esq.^ Waixhouse-keeper , 

 Sir: 



In compliance with your request, we have 

 examined the samples of cotton shown to us from 

 Dharwar, viz, the American Upland and white- 

 seeded, and beg leave to state our opinion, that 

 the cotton is of superior quality, the staple good 

 and worth about one hundred and eighty rupees 



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