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COTTON-WOOL. 



Letter to niit to them, with as much dispatch as the case 



the Company's 



^Agent will permit, a specimen (in duplicate) of the 

 19 March 1835. machiiic OF machincs chiefly used in cleaning the 

 cotton which is grown in Egypt, and exported 

 from thence to Britain and elsewhere. It is not 

 the desire of the Court to receive any machinery, 

 European or American, which may have been 

 very recently introduced into Egypt, should there 

 have been any such ; their present object being to 

 obtain the original machine by which the large 

 quantities of valuable cotton received here from 

 Egy p within a few years, have been cleaned. 



The Court request information of the mode of 

 putting these Egyptian machines, if more than 

 one, into motion, and of using them generally ; 

 and also to have a supply of from fifty to one hun- 

 dred pounds- weight of the cotton (with the seeds) 

 uncleamd, precisely in the same state in which 

 the cotton appears when gathered from the plant, 

 and about to undergo the process of cleaning. 



It is desirable that the sample of cotton should 

 be of the latest crop. 



The Court further direct me to signify their 

 request, that you will be pleased to procure a 

 quantity (say one hundred pounds-weight or more) 

 of the seeds of the cotton above adverted to, and 

 transmit the same, as early as possible and by the 

 shortest route, to the Government of Bombay, 

 for experimental cultivation in India, where the 

 Egyptian cotton, although not wholly unknown, 



appears 



