2(^1 SILK»W0RM/ No-7. 2i 



Intelligence refpefling Arts. 



On the Culture of the Silk-Worm in India. 



f hai'e had frequent occajion- to mention Dr yantes Anderfon of 

 Madras,, as an ajjidumu promoter of ufeful undertakings. He 

 jiill goes fortuard in his praife-vjorthy career. The great ob- 

 jcS of all his purfuits is to difcover means of furnifhing con- 

 flant employment to the loiuer clajfes of people in India, ivith a 

 vieiv to relieve themfii'ves frcni thofe di/trejfes to ivhich they 

 are too often expofed, zuhile they fhall at the fame time bene- 

 fit the flaic. By his care, the cochineal infecl, if not already 

 efiablijhed there, will foon. be planted in thofe regions, where 

 there is every reafon to hope it will profper abundantly. But 

 his •vie'ws are not confined to one ohjsB : he knonvs that varie- 

 ty of employments alone can furnifh proper bufmefs for a great 

 people. In the folhwmg letter he points mit the propriety of 

 their cultivating the Silk-Worm, and the probability of its fuc- 

 ceeding ; during the winter months efpecially, there can be no 

 doubt but that itifelt may be reared there with great fuccefs. 



To the Honourable Sir Charles Oakeley, Bart. Senior 

 Member, and Council. 



'' Honourable Sir, 

 *' A Neceflary attention to the duties of my ftation, in the 

 inilitaiy department, has hitherto prevented my acknowledg- 

 TTient of your favour, inclofmg the extract of a general letter 

 from the Jlonourable Court of Direftors, dated May 19. 1790; 

 and although a lla(te of war is ever precarious, yet the fuperi- 

 or difcipllne of our troops, and the ikill of their commanders 

 in maintaining v/ar in the entmy's territory, will, I tnift, ex- 

 cufe my writing occaGonally on the arts of peace that may be 

 promoted in this country. ' 



. " 1 am pleafed with the approval of tlie Honourable Court, 

 becaufe they will fee' from my report of September 14. 1790, 

 the readinefs in which their Nopalry ftands to receive tlie beft 

 kind of cochineal infeds from America, where alone they can 

 be found ; I, therefore, hope that no time will bs loll in fend- 

 ing them here. 



"• Some mulberry trees, introduced about twenty years apo, 

 grew fo luxuriantly, that I was at pair.s to commillion the 

 e^gs of the filk-worm from Btngal at feveral ditlerent times. 



