COTTON- WOOL. 



287 



appears to have made very trifling progress; and ^1^^^^"^ 

 also to forward therewith a portion of the cotton Agent 



^ at Cairo, 



with its seeds as gathered from the plant. 19 March 1 835. 



I am, &c. 



(Signed) P. Auber, 



Secretary. 



Lieut-Col. Patrick Campbell, 

 &c. &c. &c. 



His Majesty's Consul-general in Egypt, 

 and Agent for the East-India Com- 

 pany, Cairo. 



No. 108- 



Letter frojn the Secretary to the Court of Direc- 

 tors to the Company's Agent at Rio de Janeiro^ 

 dated the mh March 1835. 



Sir : 



I am commanded by the Court of Directors to Letter to 



the Company's 



request you will be pleased to procure and trans- Agent at 



. Rio de Janeiro, 



mit to them, as early as possible, a specimen (m 19 March 1835. 

 duplicate) of the most improved machine or ma- 

 chines at present in use for cleaning the fine 

 Brazil cottons, known in the London market as 

 Pernambuco, Bahia, Maranham, Para, and Minas 

 cotton, with an explanation of the mode of putting 

 the machines in motion, and of using them gene- 



The 



rally.* 



* Memorandum, — In case the saw-gin or North American 

 Whitney machine be used in the Brazils, the Court would be 



clad 



