ASTERN HINDOOSTAN. 



the proceffes nfed in the producing the colors, and to him I 

 refer the reader. 



A MOST commendable fpirit of improvement in arts, manu- 

 faiflures, and natural hiftory, has of late rifen in Hindoq/ian, 

 particularly in the fcience of botany, with a view to the promo- 

 tion of the arts, and of rural ceconomy. Trees and plants of 

 congenial climates have been introduced from Africa^ and the 

 New World, and from different and diftant parts of tropical 

 Ajla, and been cultivated with fuccefs, by the fkill and afli- 

 duity of DocSlor James Anderfon of Madras^ and Do6tor William 

 Roxburgh of Samulcoitab, in the Circars, and many other pa- 

 triotic charadlers, liberally affifted by the prefident of our fo- 

 ciety Sir Joseph Baxks. The filk manufadiure has its mate- 

 rial brought home from the very egg. Immenfe plantations 

 of the proper mulberry-tree is feen every where. The very 

 Nabobs have caught the glorious flame, and bent their minds 

 to the ufeful employ. The Morus papyri/era has been brought 

 from Japan. 



The Cactus cochenillifer, or Nopal, the Tuna mitior, Dell. 

 Hort. ii. p. 399. tab. ccxcvii. has been imported from its native 

 country the Brazils, from the Ille of France, from the Cape, 

 from St. Helena'^, and from Kew garden ; in each of which it 

 had been cultivated, ?.nd in the three laft for the purpofe of 

 gradual tranfportation. 



The infe<rts have profpered in various places, from the Coro- 

 mandel coafts to the Circars, and even to Bengal, fo that the 

 dyers of Hindoojlan may get this valuable article at their own 

 doors. The Callus tuna, Tuna major, Hort. Bell. ii. p. 396. 



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