14 memoirs of Dr James Anderson. . May 9: 
When I tell you that the lady governefs has directed 
a plantation of mulberry trees at the Fentale Asylum, and. 
that several of my friends are tow employed in the care 
of silk-worms on different parts of the coast, you will, I 
am sure, think with me,.that so favourable an opportunity 
of establifhing a manufacture of public utility, fhould be 
exposed to as little rifk as pofsible ; especially when I like- 
wise afsure you that I have constructed the Piemontese 
reel agreeable.to the plan in the French Encyclope#ia, 
which has cost the company many thousand pounds for 
defraying the expence of Italian artists sent.to Bengal. 
The most authentic accounts I have been able to pro- 
cure, state the contracts for silk at Cofsimbuzar, to amount 
yearly to sixty lacks of rupees, which is not half the value 
of 22,000 bales, the former produce of that country ; in- 
deed J have understood that ‘Tippoo Sultan has lately sup- 
plied the interior parts of the peninsula with silk made at 
Seringapatnam, yet the demand is ever considerable. 
As my views have been uniformly directed to point out 
the means of earning a subsistence at all times to the mean- 
‘er and lower clafses of the people, of a nature adapted to 
their genius and disposition, it will only be necefsary to 
represent to you the mode in which this may be effected. 
I therefore recommend that the revenue board be in- 
structed to direct mulberry plantations at every village on 
the coast, which, if 1 am not much mistaken, may be done 
at little or no expence, by means of the collectors and Na- 
towars, or natives, who direct the cultivation. 
The ground for mulberry plantations thould be a light 
friable soil, capable of being watered in the hot season ; 
and at the same time so high as not to be flooded in the 
wet ; such are the banks of all the rivulets on the coast. 
‘As the insects can speedily be multiplied, and distributed 
whenever mulberry plantations are suficiently estallifhed, 
