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COTTON -WOOL. 



Apj)endix. 



OBSERVATIONS 



UPON 



BRAZIL COTTON-WOOL, 



FOR 



The Information of the Planter^ and ivith a view to its 

 Improvemejit. 



(Published in 1808, 27th June). 



1. Previous to the year 1800, Pernambuco cotton was 

 estimated by the British manufacturer, chiefly for the 

 fineness and silkiness of its staple ; but at that time a 

 large proportion of it was much reduced in value, by the 

 quantity of stained cotton, as well as leaf, seed, and other 

 kinds of dirt, which it contained. 



2. About the period above-mentioned, inspectors ap- 

 pear to have been appointed in that part of the Brazils, 

 for the purpose of remedying the complaints upon these 

 points, and from that time all the cotton from Pernambuco 

 has been greatly improved in cleanness and evenness of 

 colour; but by some mismanagement, the greater part of 

 it has been gradually losing that fine, soft, silky texture, 

 which formerly constituted its principal value, and a large 

 portion of the import for some time past has been coni" 

 paratively coarse in the staple and less bright in colour. 



3. It may therefore be worth while, at our entrance 

 upon the new relations which are likely to subsist between 

 Great Britain and the Portuguese government established 

 at the Brazils, to enquire into the causes of this alteration 

 in the quality of Pernambuco cotton, with a view to the 

 recovery of its former valuable properties, and combining 



them 



