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thinks most likely to furnifh employment to the bulk 
of the people ; and the progrefs he has made in the 
silk rearing in so fhort a time, is truly astonifhing- 
Our limits prevent the insertion of letters that tend 
to establith this fact. J cannot, however, deny my- 
self the pleasure of inserting the following letter on 
the subject of silk rearing in India: 
To the hon. Sir Charles Oakety bart. senior member, and council. 
Hon. sirs, April 18. 1790. 
A necessary attention to the duties of my station in the 
military department, has hitherto prevented any acknow- 
ledgement of your favour, enclosing the extract of a gene- - 
ral letter from the honourable Court of Directors, dated the 
19th of May, 1790; and although a state of war is ever 
precarious, yet the superior discipline of our troops, and the. 
fkill of the commanders in maintaining war in the enemy’s 
country, will, I trust, excuse my writing occasionally on 
the arts of peace that may be promoted in this. 
I am pleased with the approval of the honourable court, 
because they will see from my report of Sept. 14. 1789, 
the readinefs in which their nopalry stands to receive the 
best kind of cochineal insects from America, where alone 
they can be found. I therefore hope that no time will 
be lost in sending them here. 
Some mulberry trees I introduced about twenty years. 
ago grew so luxuriantly, that I was at pains to obtain the 
eggs of the silk-woim from Bengal at several different 
times. The first embarkation could not be hatched, the 
second hatched on the pafsage, but the third, which came 
in one of the store-fhips in December last, has succeeded ; 
and not one of the worms have died of disease in this ¢li- 
mate, or till such time as all their evolutions were accom- 
plithed, 
