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5. Bourbon cotton has been cultivated in the district Appendi: 

 for many years, principally in small compounds sheltered 



by a wall and surrounding huts. It is of no use in the 

 coarse manufactures of the natives : it is principally used 

 by the manufacturers at Palamcottah, where that fine 

 description of cloth sold under the denomination of 

 Mauritius cambric is fabricated. It is not productive, 

 and the cultivation of it would be attended with certain 

 loss. 



6. The soil of this district is well adapted to the growth 

 of cotton almost to any extent. Much of the land, how- 

 ever, now lies waste, and will, in all probability, continue 

 to do so for many years, sickness having so considerably 

 diminished the number of cultivators. 



7. Land capable of producing cotton is divided into 

 four sorts. The rent of the first sort is forty- two cooly 

 fanams per chain ; the second is thirty-two fanams ; the 

 third sort is twenty-four fanams, and the fourth is sixteen 

 fanams. 



8. The aggregate expense of cultivating and cleaning 

 one candy of cotton is eleven pagodas five fanams and 

 fifty cash. 



9. The best mode of encouraging and extending the 

 cultivation of cotton would be, by prevailing on the cul- 

 tivators to receive advances, and allowing the ryots to 

 cultivate waste lands on certain terms. 



10. It would not be advisable to cultivate Bourbon 

 cotton in this district. 



COIMBATOOR. 



1. Cotton is cultivated in this district to considerable 

 extent, and with due encouragement may be greatly in- 

 creased. 



2, The import and export of cotton in this district is 



not 



