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About this time, hoped to get up his machines, and then inform me 

 the result of his enterprise. He had made some silk, &c., of which, 

 T think, were samples on the card I sent you last year. 



His letter is dated Lima, May 24 ; expects a gentleman to come 

 out, and can take anything ; says there is quite an interest taken in 

 raising silk in Lima, but most people are too timid to undertake a new 

 business ; that the climate is, above all others, fitted for the cultiva- 

 tion, and eventually will be as profitable as are her mines. 



Mr. N. Storrs, a native of this place, has resided in Jamaica, with 

 S. Whitmarsh, of Savannah, Ga., is acquainted with the cultivation 

 of mulberry trees, does not know as he ever fed worms in Jamaica 

 and South. 



Mr. Storrs was not at the New-England convention, nevertheless, 

 was appointed a delegate, that, on his way south, he might meet with 

 the convention, and carry out information. I believe he is now en- 

 gaged in the cultivation of sea island cotton, on Defusky Island, down 

 the river from Savannah. D. S. 



In a postscript. Dr. S. refers to a family in his neighborhood, who 

 have been long and ardently attached to the silk cause, and have been 

 growing cocoons and manufacturing sewings for years. He says, in 

 this town, Joseph Clark introduced the culture of silk fifty or sixty 

 years ago, and made both sewings and ladies' dresses, samples of 

 which were shown me. Mr. Clark kept a silk journal for a long time, 

 by which it appears silk has been longer grown in this town — an un- 

 interrupted succession of years — than in any other place in the coun- 

 try, except in Mansfield, Connecticut. 



With Dr. Stebbins's papers, were also presented the 



