144 WILD SILK. 



Talk is also plentiful in Currucdea, which is 

 a part of the same range of hills towards Mon- 

 ghier. Gum Lac and Dammah, (a kind of resin,) 

 are produced in most parts of Ramghur> and 

 are articles of exportation. Kino is also pro- 

 duced in large quantities throughout the hills ; 

 it is extracted from a tree called by the natives 

 Kyre^ in the following manner : They cut 

 down the trees and hew them into small pieces, 

 which, by boiling, gives out the kino ; they then 

 evaporate it to an extract. This, with areca 

 nut, and betle leaf, is chewed by all the natives 

 of India. 



A coarse kind of silk, known by the name of 

 tussar, is produced there in large quantities. 

 The insects are much larger than the common 

 silk worm ; the coocoons, or chrysalis, being full 



that no European should ever see it; however, at last, by 

 repeated entreaties, he was prevailed on to visit the gentle- 

 man : he carried the diamond with him, which being pro- 

 duced, caused considerable mortification to all parties, it 

 proving to be a cut glass stopper of a decanter, which most 

 probably had been dropped in one of the beds of the rivers 

 by some officer's servant, where it was found by one of the 

 Rajah's people. 



