'^1 imfireVetnenls in India. Sept, -12^ 



conveyed to even a greater distance, under cover of a 

 letter j for it is needlefs to suppose that they are bruised 

 when we every day see those eggs that get addled, from 

 any cause whatever, soon flatten and collapse, without any 

 external prefsure. 



I know that there are mulberry trees enough in your 

 district to supply leaves for a large investment of si\k, 

 but the distrefs of the inhabitants I am truly sensible 

 must have involved you in an infinite deal of trouble and 

 anxiety. ' 



I will only observe that nothing appears to me so well 

 calculated to obviate the frequent repetition of such 

 weighty calamities as a diversity of employment for the 

 lower clafses of the people. 



No real attempts having ever been made to better the 

 natives ; and their whole subsistence consisting of grain, 

 which can only be raised by rain happening to fall at cer- 

 tain stated seasons, it is obvious that if we can enable 

 them, by the circulation of cafn, which must attend the 

 culture of silk, to purchase grain from other countries when 



'their own crop fails, we fliall render au efsential service to 

 the human race here. 



I will not farther obtrude on your cares, than tb tell 



•you, that whenever you are sulBciently disengaged, Mr 

 Binny, or Mr Roxburgh, will supply you with eggs ; or, 

 which is much nearer you, Mr Haliburton at Vizagapatnam, 

 to whom I mean to forward some in a few days •, and youJ- 

 establilliing the Bungalo will at least save a dozen children 



•from being starved. I am, is'c. 



Fort Si. George, Feb. 15. 1793. 



From Robert Ajidrews to James Anderson esq. 

 Dear. Sir., 

 1 H.WE been favoured with your letter, forwarding a supply 

 of silk worm eggs, for which I beg you to accept my 

 thanks ; my family have encreased much, and continue to 

 multiply very fast. 



The late heavy rains, however, have caused the death 

 ■of many hundred worm";, which I conceive may proceed 

 ^in- sMae degree from the dampnefs of the walls of the 



