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ON SILK. 



[This Report on Silk came to hand too late to be inserted in its proper place.] 



The Committee on Silk, &:c. respectfully Report: 

 That three specimens were exhibited. One from 

 Mr. Isaac Stevens of Newburyport, of sewing silk 

 manufactured from cocoons, which the committee 

 consider as highly creditable to the skill of Miss 

 Griffin by whom it was done, and most cheerfully 

 recommend a gratuity of five dollars. 



The second from Joshua Tappen, of Newbury, a 

 specimen of three bushels of cocoons, some of which 

 has also been manufactured into sewing silk. The 

 committee regard Mr. Tappen as entitled to the 

 countenance of the Society for the perseverance 

 manifested in bringing the cocoons to maturity and 

 for the good management which must have been used 

 to have secured so much success in his first eflforts in 

 the business of producing silk, and recommend a 

 gratuity of three dollars. 



The third was a small specimen of cocoons raised 

 by Miss Sarah C. Perry, of Bradford, characterized 

 by unusual fineness, a gratuity of one dollar is pro- 

 posed. 



The Committee are pleased with the attention 

 which continues to be paid to this interesting part of 

 Manufacture, notwithstanding the unfavorable effect 

 which the past seasons have had upon the Mulberry 

 Trees, and the consequent discouragement which has 

 come in upon this enterprise, and hope that a change 

 in the seasons, or some discovery which may protect 

 the Mulberry, in common with many of the fine and 

 ornamental trees, from the blast which has been 

 spreading over them, may soon give a new im- 

 pulse to those engaged in it, and that the profits nijiy 

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