. History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain : with a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe : a description of the great mechanical inventions, which have caused its unexampled extension in Britain, and a view of the present state of the manufacture and the condition of the classes engaged in its several departments. lcutta, in which it is pronounced equal, if notsuperior, to any kind procurable in the London market. I cultivated it in the gar-den at Tittygheer, near Borrackpore, during several years in which that establish-ment continued attache
. History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain : with a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe : a description of the great mechanical inventions, which have caused its unexampled extension in Britain, and a view of the present state of the manufacture and the condition of the classes engaged in its several departments. lcutta, in which it is pronounced equal, if notsuperior, to any kind procurable in the London market. I cultivated it in the gar-den at Tittygheer, near Borrackpore, during several years in which that establish-ment continued attached to the botanic garden at Calcutta. Dr. W. adds, that inasserting the high capabilities of the Companys territories for the growth of thefinest cotton, experience, and not theory, is the ground on which he has pro-ceeded. * Orme, in his Historical Fragments of the Mogul Empire, says, On the coastof Coromandel and in the province of Bengal, when at some distance from thehigh road or a principal town, it is difficult to find a village in which every man, 1 6(5 THE HISTORY OF domestic manufacture, and carried on with the rudestand cheapest apparatus, it requires neither capital, normills, nor an assemblage of various trades. The cottonis separated from the seeds by a small rude hand-mill,or gin, turned by women, of which the following isa representation :—. The mill consists of two rollers of teak wood, flutedlongitudinally with five or six grooves, and revolvingnearly in contact. The upper roller is turned by ahandle, and the lower is carried along with it by a per-petual screw at the axis. The cotton is put in at oneside, and drawn through by the revolving rollers; but woman, and child is not employed in making a piece of cloth. At present, muchthe greatest part of the whole provinces are employed in this single manufacture.(p. 109.) The progress of the linen (cotton) manufacture includes no less thana description of the lives of half the inhabitants of Indostan. (p. 413.) It
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