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precise state in which it is placed by the women of India previous to its being 

 spun into yarn. The coarse and middling qualities should be rejected. 



III. The Bengal cotton imported is much like that of Surat, but 

 of rather shorter staple, the superior kinds being reserved for the manu- 

 facture of muslins and other piece-goods. 



IV. Of Madras cotton but little is imported ; it is in general dirty, 

 containing much seed, which reduces its value in England very considerably. 

 Small quantities are occasionally met with raised from Bourbon seed, which 

 it resembles in staple, but fails far short in cleanness and colour. 



In the first edition of this Work, the author inserted a statement shewing 

 the progressive increase in the importation of cotton into Great Britain, in 

 order to furnish some idea of the prosperity of our cotton manufactures. 

 That statement was brought down to the year 1302, in which year the total 

 quantity imported from all parts of the world had reached 60,329,311 lbs. 

 To shew the prodigious extension since then of this branch of our trade, the 

 following statements are subjoined; whence it appears, that the quantity of 

 raw cotton imported into Great Britain last year, was nearly treble the 

 amount which Mr. Milburn deemed so large ; and that upwards of one 

 hundred and fifty millions of pounds weight were in that year spun and 

 manufactured. 



The following is the quantity of cotton wool imported into Great 

 Britain from all parts of the world during three years, ending 1823. 



Vnu*. 



U.S. of America 



Brax. & Portugal 



East IncOet 



West indie* 



Total 



Offlcial Value 



Paekagtu 



Pudcaget. 



Packngvi. 



Packages. 



Pound* IVetvM. 



£ 



1821 . 





121,050 



29,700 



37,250 



128,573,275 



4,347,258 



1622 . 



.'130,000 



143,900 



19,300 



40,650 



133,797,735 



4,731,252 







1*8,070 



38,660 



33,610 



180,233,795 



6,241,561 



The quantity imported from the East in these years, is small compared 

 with that of preceding. In 1817, the number of packages was 1 17,055 ; in 

 ISIS, 247,300? and in 1819, 178,300. But an excessive importation in 

 those years glutted the market, and reduced the price of the commodity in 

 this country below that which it bore at the place of its growth. The East 

 India Company in consequence re-exported to China, in the year 1821, 

 upwards of three millions of pounds weight. 



The following is the quantity of cotton wool taken for spinning for 

 three years, ending 1823. 



Years. Pounds Wright. 



1821 128,527,725 



1B22 1 10,7 95,375 



1823 150,295,793 



