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& have caused as many to be planted in my own garden, 
and at the nopalry, as will supply abundance of cuttings 
for the gardens of all the collectors, from whence they 
may be afterwards distributed amongst the villagers. 
The island of Cofsimbuzar and its neighbourhood, where 
alone silk is made in Bengal, is but a small spot, compa- 
red with the extent of the coast. In four months of cold 
season neither does the mulverry put forth leaves, nor the 
eggs of the silk-worm hatch, whereas the cold season here 
is sufficiently warm for both, and the silk I have made is 
more brilliant than that of Bengal. 
In Europe the worm undergoes but one evolution in the 
year, whereas mine are in the third generation since the 
14th of December last. 
Several gentlemen have brought silk-worms here since I 
have been in India, which for want of plan, attention, or 
perseverance, have come to nothing; and although the war 
at present is a great hinderance to the full adoption of any. 
plan for this purpose, yet from the ease with which it may 
be effected, and that mulberry cuttings, planted before the 
monsoon, will live with little farther trouble, I am indu- 
ced to hope that ground will be laid out for plantations as 
soon as pofsible. I am, de. 
James Anperson. 
' Extract of a letter from the same to the same 
May 9. 1790. * 
_As the albanian of. silk here must be attended with 
increase of all the present. branches of revenue, by the 
consumption of necefsaries depending on a richer popula.. 
tion, and nothing promises :so fair to repair the waste of 
different Mysorean wars, I think it altogether worthy 
your attention to hold up an exemption from taxes oy 
goulberry plantations, or silk reared by the natives. =, 
J am, 
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