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COTTON-WOOL. 



Memorandum in winter ; it is then slightly beaten and passed 



for working , ... 



Cotton through the machine, after which it is placed on 

 a circular frame of wood (see hurdle in hat- 

 making), having cords stretched tightly and closely 

 across, or in some cases slips of the date-tree, 

 and well beaten and turned with two thin canes, 

 which separates all the dirt, and it is then ready 

 for the market. 



These machines will clean about half a cantar, 

 or sixty-one pounds of cotton per day ; but then 

 there must be a relief of hands, as it is not cal- 

 culated that one man cleans more than a quarter 

 of a cantar, or about thirty pounds. They are, 

 however, sometimes worked by mules. 



No. 110. 



Extract Letter from the Governor in Council 

 Bombay^ to the Court of Directors, dated the 2d 

 March 1836. 



Letter from Par. 6. We have received by the steamer Hugh 

 to a)un Lindsay two boxes, forwarded by Colonel Campbell, 

 s'^MSch^sse. His Majesty's Consul-general in Egypt ; one con- 

 taining fifty pounds of best long silk cotton 

 uncleaned with the seed in it, and the other 

 one hundred and twelve pounds of the seed of the 

 same cotton. 



7. A portion of the seed has been sent to the 

 farms in Guzerat for cultivation : we have likewise 



directed 



