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between coarse and fine, clean and dirty cotton, falls Api^eiK 

 wholly upon himself, the duty, freight, and all other 

 charges (commission excepted), being upon the weight or 

 package, and not ad valorem. 



(Signed) Roger Hunt. 



London, 

 27th June 1808. 



Subsequent Remarks by Mr. It. Hunt. 



(1808). 



The above remarks upon Pernambuco cotton apply 

 with still greater force to nearly the whole of the import 

 from Surinam, the mode of cleaning which (judging from 

 the state of the cotton) must be still more objectionable 

 than that used in Brazil, most of the Surinam of late 

 years possessing not only a more tenacious adherence of 

 the fibres, but the staple being actually broken^ apparently 

 by some kind of machinery introduced to supersede the 

 necessity of hand-picking (probably the gin used in 

 America). This will account to the Surinam planter for 

 that gradual approximation in price between Surinam 

 and New Orleans cotton, which has been taking place for 

 some years past, not from any improvement in the latter, 

 but by the former being reduced in value, by the mode of 

 cleaning, at least two-pence to three-pence per pound. 

 It may be observed that colour is not a subject of com- 

 plaint in Surinam cotton, which for the most part is more 

 perfect in that respect than any other sort. 



Nearly the whole of the Demerara and Berbice plan- 

 ters appear, of late years, wisely to have abandoned the 

 injurious practice of switching their cotton, and it now 

 only remains for them, by the method herewith recom- 

 mended, to divest it of the stain and dirt, which is more 



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