mulberry-trcc was commenced in Georgia; and, in 1766 

 twenty thousand pounds of cocoons were exported from 

 tliat State ; and sold in England. Soon after, a similar 

 beginning was made in Pennsylvania; but both were 

 discontinued by the revolution. 



In Connecticut, sewing silk has been manufactured 

 more than seventy years. The product of the town of 

 Mansfield alone, the present season, is estimated at eigh- 

 ty five thousand dollars. 



About thirty years ago, this article was manufactured, 

 to some extent, in Amherst in this county ; and several 

 beautiful webs were woven; and worn, in gowns and 

 handkerchiefs, by the females, whose ingenuity and 

 skill fabricated them. But the business was afterwards 

 discontinued. 



The culture of the mulberry, has made some pro- 

 gress, in Delaware, Ohio, and, I believe, some other of the 

 States of the Union. And a laudable spirit, character- 

 istic of the people, is diffusing itself over the territory of 

 this society. — There are within its limits, about twenty 

 mulberry orchards; nurseries, containing plants, suffi- 

 cient to set over hundreds of acres ; and in one place,^ 

 sewing silk, and other light fabrics are manufactured. 

 The quantity of silk stuffs, manufactured on the East- 

 ern continent, is immense. Though once an article of 

 luxury,and exchanged, in equal weight, for gold, and after- 

 wards, by some governments, forbidden to be used, consid- 

 ered as extravagance ; yet it is now, an article much in 

 use, in all countries ; and Avill, in all probability, in our 

 time, become as common for wearing apparel, as the 

 fabrics, made of flax or cotton. 



* Belchertown. 



