45^ ON HEMP AND 



The cords, when (he trials were made, had been kept about 

 fix months after they were prepared, chiefly with the view of 

 allowing the effevSis of the tan and tar to fake place. The re- 

 fult of Ihefe experiments Qiow, that Ian has in general added 

 ftrength, while tar has had a contrary, effe6t'; and in no inftance 

 is this more clearly evinced, that in the common hemp (Can- 

 nabis) cultivated in Bengal. 



Ijooand Coir. Xo Ejoo and Coir, neither tan nor tar feem applicable; and 

 in feveral of -the other experiments, I had not a fufficient 

 quantity of the materials to make the necelfary number of 

 cords, viz. lix of each Ibrt, to try with tan and tar, as well 

 as in their natural (late. At fome future period, I hope to be 

 more fortunate in procuring larger fupplies of the materials, 

 and alfo to add fome other other forts, fuch as the — 



Bow-ftting fibre. Rajemahl bow-ftring fibre, the produce of a new fpecies of 

 Afclepias, difcovered by William Roxburgh, junior, amongft 

 the Rajemahl Hills ; 



New ZeaUnd l^ew Zealand Hemp ; 



^^^^' Hifoifcus Cannabinu^, and fome other of the fame natural 



order (Columnifer::e) ; (for in genera! their barks abound with 

 lliong fibres ; witnefs the foregoing table, where fix of them 

 are to be found) ; 



The leaves of a new fpecies of Andropogon^ &c. &c. 



APPENDIX, 



Containing Bcmarhs on fome of the Plants mentioned in the fore- 

 going Table. 



Remarks on No. 2. Hemp, or Cannabis Saliva. — Banga, in Sanfcrit ; 



ktmp. Bunga, Bungh, or Bung, of the Hindoos ; Bang, of the 



Perfians; Kinnub, of the Arabians, is no doubt our own 

 famous plarit, now fo common and ufeful in Europe. I have 

 at different times examined various figures and defcriplions, 

 as well as the plants reared from Europe feed, comparing them 

 with our Indian plant through its various llages, and can dif-. 

 rover no difference whatever, not even to found a variety on. 

 Perhaps few vegetables, fo widely diffufed over almoft every 

 part of the known world, and under the immediate manage- 



It Is well known m en t of man, have undergone lefs change. It is perfedly 



in India ; butnot f^j^ij^j ^q ^IJ the nations of India, I ra^y fay of all the warmer 

 lor Its fibres ; »■ j j 



part^ 



