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NOTICES OF IMPROVEMENIS NOW GOING ON IN INDIA. 



Continued from p. 192. 



Respecting the breadfruit tree. 



From Alexander Macleod esq. to Dr "James Anderson. 



Dear. Sir, 

 I ACCEPT with great pleasure the commifsioa you have 

 favoured me with, to enquire respecting the bread fruit 

 tree. The Inclosed extract of a letter to Dr Mein will 

 fhew you what steps I have taken to promote the ia- 

 quiry. I (hall also write to Coimbatore, on the subject, 

 as it is said that the bread truit tree grows in that dis- 

 trict j but I did not see it in any part which I pafsed 

 through in August last, and I went through very fine, and 

 highly cultivated spots, near the hills, and returned through 

 the center of the district. I am, &c, 



Dindigu!, heb. c, 1792. 



" I have been favoured with a letter from Dr Anderson, 

 in which he desires me to intorm him If the bread fruit 

 tree is to be found in or near this district. His letter is 

 accompanied by copies of the two letters you wrote to him 

 respecting the bread fruit tree near Tritchinopoly j but the 

 description of it In your letters, though perfectly clear to 

 rae, will not I fear be sufficiently so for the natives, whom I 

 Ihall employ in searching for it. 



" I therefore take the liberty of requesting that you 

 will employ some person to make a coloured drawing of 

 its fruit, blofsom, and leaf, of the natural size, and for- 

 ward It to me by the tappal, togetiier with a measure- 

 ment of the general height of the tree, by the help of 

 which I fliall probably be able to give Dr Anderson a sa- 

 tisfactory answer to his inquliies." 



From Dr "James Anderson to Alex. Macleod esq. 

 Dear Sir, 

 I AM truly sensible of your ready attention to my request 

 of searching for the bread fruit tree, as the mode you have 

 adopt^id will readily discover it. 



