56 COTTON IN THE MAD HAS PRESIDENCY. [CH. Ill, 



advisable to glance at the proceedings of the Planters. 



Mr. Simpson had been transferred to the 

 Stte^from Bombay Government, bnt his place was 

 Geor eNth supplied by another American Planter 

 Dec!? 1845. 1 named Pinnie, who had been previously 

 Ette^fsrd 3 employed by the Bengal Government. 

 Sept., 1845. Accordingly, Mr. Morris was despatched 

 as47) R p?38T northwards to report upon the district of 



Bellary ; and Mr. Pinnie was despatched 

 eastwards to report upon the district of Madras. 



88 Mr. Morris reports unfavourably of Bellary : his 

 death. — Mr. Morris reached Bellary in October, 1845, 

 Mr. Morris's an< ^ examined the Cotton lands in the neigh- 

 letter, 27th bourhood of the town of Bellary, and those 

 24th Bet, i n the talook of Adonie, about forty-three 

 Return* 1 * 1 ' m ^ es eastward of Bellary. He reported 

 (1847), pp. that the soil was Black, and therefore un- 

 413, 414. suited to the growth of American Cotton, 

 which had thrived best on the E-ed lands. Again, the 

 New Orleans Cotton requires a sea breeze, but there was 

 no sea breeze in Bellary. He next proceeded to the 

 Cotton-growing district of Dharwar in the Bombay 

 Presidency, and there he found that the soil and cli- 

 mate were far better adapted to the growth of Ame- 

 rican Cotton than the climate and soil of Bellary, 

 Mr. Morris however remarked that the Indian Cotton 

 grown in Bellary was superior to the same Cotton in 

 Dharwar. He therefore proposed that a saw gin should 

 be erected in Bellary. The suggestion was approved 

 by the Madras Government, but not carried out. Mr. 

 Morris died at Bellary on the 18th March, 1846. 



89 Mr. Pinnie reports' unfavourably of the Madras dis- 

 trict : despatched to Tinnevelly. — Meantime Mr. Pinnie 



had been despatched to the eastern coast, 

 Mr. Finnie's to Pullicarnv in the Madras district. His 



letter, 6th , J r ii tt i» j 



Oct., 1845. report was unfavourable. He had gone 



as^)fpS over P ullicarn .7 with Mr - Maltby the Col- 

 lector, and found that all the high land was 

 a barren waste, and that all the low land was under 

 water. Accordingly Mr. Pinnie was directed to pro- 

 ceed to the district of Tinnevelly in the South, and to 



