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c^Lush^Er expense amounted to about forty rupees 



to E. H. the Surat candv. 



Townsend, *' 



Esq., 6. The Guzerat churka, 7^2^. 3, and Specimen 



4 Dec. 1835. . ^ W & ' r 



No. 3, is not used in the Southern Mahratta 

 country. It is adapted to any kind of cotton, 

 excepting perhaps the Pernambuco, which appears 

 to require some new process. It would appear, 

 however^ from the description of the Pernambuco 

 machine in Roster's Travels in Brazil," that it 

 is the same as the Guzerat in principle. 



7. Now it is found that both these churkas 

 cause a twist of the staple whenever the cotton 

 sticks between the cylinders, or when they are 

 not evenly worked, which in the hands of the un- 

 skilful is often the case. The staple is also often 

 injured by tearing the cotton out from between 

 the cylinders. 



8. We have not been able to clean any foreign 

 cottons with the foot-roller. The seeds of the 

 latter are more brittle than those of the country 

 cotton, and are smashed and mixed up with the 

 staple. 



9. It is obvious that, with the motion of the 

 foot-roller, the staple can neither be broken nor 

 torn, but is simply cut off at its attachment to the 

 skin of the seed. 



10. It is then a great desideratum for the In- 

 dian cotton, to find some plan of conducting this 

 rolling process by machinery, and it is to be hoped 



that 



