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COTTON-WOOL. 



Appendix. After a careful examination, it does not seem that the 

 rarreah or buroweh cotton of the first sort, cultivated in 

 Benares and the neighbouring countries, is much inferior 

 to that of Nagpore ; for it not being spun in the district 

 into fine thread, is perhaps more owing to the want of 

 good spinners than to an}^ defect in the inherent quality 

 of the cotton itself. A proof of which is, that the very 

 fine mow-thread is spun from the rarreah or buroweh 

 and nurmah sorts. This is a proof of the goodness of 

 the cotton, and renders evident the policy of increasing its 

 cultivation. 



The Amsootie, though inferior to the first sort of Nag- 

 pore, is still deemed to be of a very good quality, and 

 capable of yielding in the hands of good spinners fine and 

 even thread ; and so are the Heydenagur and Jalwan 

 sorts, though not generally considered to be equal to the 

 Amsootie. nor do they usually yield so high a price. 



The Gohrah and Bhenom-ghur assortments are rec- 

 koned to be about the same class as to quality as the 

 Jalwar, but no great quantities of these sorts are imported. 



The Misseerpore is deemed inferior to the two former, 

 but is sometimes exported to the Company's provinces. 



The ruee, the produce of foreign countries, imported 

 for the consumption of the province, is for the most part 

 expended in sermue or habits for the cold season, such as 

 quilted jamahs lined with cotton; also in rezaus, purdahs, 

 behadars, tents of the natives lined with that article, 

 cushions, pillows, and such like uses. The proportion of 

 foreign cotton spun into thread is but small in the dis- 

 trict, as the spinners always prefer either the produce of 

 Benares or kupas imported from the neighbouring coun- 

 tries for that purpose ; but when it is consumed in that 

 way, it is generally manufactured into the sorts of coarse 

 thread made in the zemindary, and the Nagpore and 



Amsootie 



