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Appendix. their faults, and refer to the management recommended 

 above for the remedy. 



10. Maranham has, of late years, been for the most 

 part coarse in the staple and dirty, and the dirt so incor- 

 porated with the wool as to be difficult and expensive to 

 separate. 



11. Bahia cotton has retained its properties better than 

 the two former sorts ; but its faults always were, and still 

 are, a great deficiency in colour, owing to the stained 

 cotton not being taken out, and many bags having much 

 whole seeds, leaf, and other kinds of dirt in them, which 

 admit of an easy remedy, by the mode suggested of 

 gathering the stained cotton separately from the good, in 

 the first instance ; and as the pernicious method of clean- 

 ing adopted in Pernambuco does not appear to be in use 

 at Bahia, this cotton would then come to market in the 

 state approved by the British manufacturer. 



12. The writer being anxious to be fully understood, 

 will here repeat that the great principle of what he 

 wishes to recommend is, that after the cotton is gathered 

 from the plant, and the seed carefully separated, the 

 prime part of the crop should undergo as little other 

 change from the state it is in when gathered, as is con- 

 sistent with its being bagged perfectly clean, as every 

 process beyond that of hand-picking has an unavoidable 

 tendency so to connect the fibres as to make them difficult 

 of separation, and also to deprive the cotton of that bright 

 silky appearance, which formerly was the distinguishing 

 character of the Brazil cotton-wool. He will also repeat 

 the recommendation, that the stained and inferior part of 

 the crop be rendered as clean as the state of labour will 

 admit, and sent to market under a separate mark or title; 

 and will conclude by requesting the planter always to bear 

 in mind, that the difference in price, in the British market, 



between 



