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. half the length that some on the tree are j as the latter 

 could not be so easily packed for the tappall — however, 

 they will be fully suthcient for you to ascertain that it is 

 the tree. I arn, is'c. 

 Trircti/afjy, Jan 20. lygi- 



From the same to the same. 



Dear Sir, 

 1 HAD the pleasure of sending you by the tappall, yester- 

 day, two leaves of the bread fruit tree, of which I also 

 gave you some account in my letter. 



i now send you a drawing of a branch from the tree ; 

 and fliall, in a day or two, send you another drawing with 

 the fruit upon it j which I would have done to dav, but 

 did not choose to take off a branch with the fruit, without 

 having obtained permifsion of the nabob's son Hufsein ul 

 Mulk. 



Mr Trotter, surgeon, acquaints me there are a great 

 number of these trees that produce fruit, in the Coimbatorc 

 country, and at Coimbatore itself. We have now a prodi- 

 gious encrease of silk worms at Warriore, that are in a 

 very healthy state, and produce a strong yellow silk, since 

 the cefiation of the rains, I am, (6-"r. 



Tntchiiiol.oly Jan. 11. 1792- 



From Dr J, Anderson to Sir Joseph Banks, bart. 



Dear Sir, 

 Believing that it may be of useful consequence to the 

 public, I have the pleasure to acquaint you, that the bread 

 fruit tree has been found in several of the southern parts 

 of the peninsula, as you will see by the two letters I have 

 just received from Pi'Ir Meia, head surgeon at Tritchinopc- 

 ly, of which I inclose copies, with the drawing wliich he 

 transmitted me along with them. 



Since the imprefsion of my last publication, which was 

 made a few days ago, and of which I have sent y«u copies, 

 both In the Phanix and Deptford, I have received ac- 

 counts of the succefs of the silk worms at Palamcotta and 

 Masulipatam, as well as of the recovery of those that had been 

 di'^cased by the late rains at Tritchinopoly. So that a breed 

 of this insect is already cstabliflied in an extent of six hun- 



