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discarded. Similar opinions were expressed Mr Petrie's 

 by Mr. Petrie, the En gineer employed in pec^'i&t? 

 Coimbatore to keep the gins in repair. If Pari! Return 

 the ginned "East India Cotton" fetched a (i857),p.845. 

 higher price in the English market, then the gin would 

 most assuredly force its way into India ; just as ma- 

 chinery for shortening labour, or for cheapening it, or 

 for doing it better, had forced its way into other coun- 

 tries, even when it had proved a temporary hardship to 

 the masses. 



Mr. Finnie's proposition for erecting a Gin-house of 171 

 two storeys : the lower one for the Driving Machinery, 

 and the upper one for the Gins. — But to proceed with 

 the narrative. It had now been finally arranged that 

 the cattle- driving machinery should be tried with the 

 large saw gins, and that manual labour should be tried 

 with the smaller gins. Accordingly it was absolutely 

 necessary that a gin-house should be constructed for 

 their reception. Mr. Einnie had for some time been 

 anxious to erect a gin-house. He now pro- Mr Pinnie . s 

 posed that this house should be about 78 letter, 1st 

 feet long by 24 feet broad ; that it should ^rLRefum 

 contain six rooms, three on the ground and (i857),p.343. 

 three on the upper floor ; that the room in £ttS?6th S 

 the middle of the ground floor, and the one and29th 6 ' 

 in the middle of the upper floor, should each March, 1S47. 

 be 30 feet long by 20 broad in the inside ; J^gf 846 

 and that the four end rooms on the ground 

 floor and upper floor should be each 20 feet long by 20 

 broad.* These two storeys of three rooms each were 

 thus to be appropriated. The upper storey was intended 

 for the gins and the ground floor for the driving ma- 

 chinery and storing of the Cotton, according to the 

 following arrangement. On the upper storey, the two 

 end rooms were to be appropriated to the gins, which 

 would discharge their Cotton into the centre room be- 



* This would seem to give a measurement for the whole house of 

 70 feet long and 20 feet broad, instead of 78 feet long and 24 feet 

 broad as above indicated. But the difference is accounted for by the 

 thickness of the walls. 



