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COTTON-WOOL. 



Appendix. 



DACCA. 

 (John Bebb, Resident.) 



Produce of the District^ its Quality, and the Uses to 

 which it is applied. 



The most valuable in quality, as well as considerable in 

 quantity, is the photee, the finest cotton in the known 

 world, producing cloth of astonishing beauty and fineness. 

 All the thin cloths, as mulmuls, alliballies, dooreas, terun- 

 dams, taujeebs, seerbetties, and nainsooks, should be made 

 therewith ; except the stripes of the dorees, which should 

 always be made of the serongee or Hindostan, which being 

 of a coarser quality, causes the stripes to be more distinct 

 from the ground. It varies almost in each particular dis- 

 trict. 



The general distinction in quality the natives make is, 

 whether the thread made therefrom swells or not in the 

 bleaching. That which is in the neighbourhood of the 

 city (Dacca) to the eastward, in the space which ranges 

 from thence by Sonargong, Seetbaddy, Bejeitpore, and 

 Jungle-barry, is reckoned not to swell, if it be not used 

 the same season that it is gathered. The thread made of 

 cotton produced to the south-east, by Narainpore and 

 Cawnpore, swells in bleaching, but less than the Hindo- 

 stan cotton. The thread in the country west and north- 

 west from thence, Dumroy, Attya, Cogmaria, Hurriaul, 

 Radeshyr, and Boosnea, swells much in bleaching, more 

 especially if it be hard twisted. 



It should seem that the very fine cotton, which is free 

 from or least subject to swell, is produced only in the 

 tract first described ; but whether this is owing to the soil, 

 the quality of the air, or to any particular art of cultiva- 

 tion, 



