Weighing Cotton at Bombay for the English Market
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A short illustrated newspaper article from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (1862) describing the weighing and loading of Indian cotton at Bombay for shipment to England during the American Civil War blockade. It discusses the shift of English demand to Indian sources, the main commercial cotton types, transport by pack-bullock and railway, bale size and compression, and porterage by Hamals. An engraving shows bales being weighed on a large hanging scale in the customhouse yard.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- November 22, 1862
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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