234 COTTON ITS' THE MADEAS PRESIDENCY. [CHAP. VI 



a large field for speculators in the same line, as ground 

 precisely similar to that operated upon by him is avail- 

 able along the banks of all our large rivers below the 

 Ghaut, especially the Kalee JSTuddee or Sedashegur river, 

 the Gungawally, the Tuddey, and Honore rivers." 



366 (2) South Canara : not a Cotton producing District. 

 — South Canara produces but a very inconsiderable 

 Mr.Hodg- amount of Cotton, and that little is sown 

 son's letter, along with grain, and is used entirely in 

 6thDec.,i86i. ^ omegt i c manufactures. The quantity pro- 

 duced is indeed so small that none ever finds its way to 

 the seaboard for shipment ; on the contrary it is imported 

 largely from the port of Coomptah in North Canara. 



367 (3) Malabar: not a Cotton producing District. — 

 Mr Grant's ^ ne Collector reports that Malabar is not 

 letter, i3th a Cotton producing district. The article is 

 April, 1861. however largely imported by land from the 

 adjoining province of Coimbatore, chiefly for the pur- 

 pose of exportation by sea to Bombay. 



368 Native States : Mysore, Cochin, and Travancore. — 

 The Cotton grown in the Native states in the Madras 

 Mr Be 's Presidency is inconsiderable in quantity, 

 letterfmh and is almost entirely employed for domes- 

 November, tic purposes. From the port of Cochin 



about 250,000 lbs. are annually exported to 

 Bombay. The trade is entirely in the hands of the 

 Shroffs or Native Bankers, who advance money to the 

 cultivators, and thus keep the trade entirely to them- 

 selves. 



369 Conclusion : general results.— It seems expected that 

 before bringing the present Hand-book to a close, the 

 compiler should offer some opinion on the results of the 

 experiments that have been made in the way of improv- 

 ing the Cotton staple in this country. In the prepara- 

 tion of the foregoing work, he has considered himself 

 more in the light of a literary mechanic, condensing and 

 arranging the subject matter in such a form as would 

 render the facts most digestible to the general reader, 

 than as possessing any special knowledge of Cotton be- 

 yond what might be required in the prosecution of his 



