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and sought to enforce the silk industry by fines 

 and premiums. The Huguenots brought the 

 culture to South Carolina, and at that time some 

 silk was manufactured. Some of these old trees 

 are said to be still living in South Carolina, 

 where much interest is now being manifested in 

 the silk industry. 



When, in 1734, the South Sea Bubble enlisted 

 so much English capital, Oglethorpe planted the 

 mulberry in Georgia, and in due time he pro- 

 duced raw silk, and sent as a present to Queen 

 Caroline of England eight pounds of his silk. 

 From this silk Charles II. wore a robe and hose 

 at his coronation. 



While the colonies were yet under British rule, 

 premiums were bestowed and penalties inflicted, 

 hoping thereby to fix the silk industry in the 

 new possessions, for the treasury of England 

 complained of the enormous drain on her 

 exchequer by the importation of raw silk to 

 supply her numerous silk manufactories. About 

 this time, a charter was granted to a London 

 company to take African negroes to the colonies 

 to engage in the cultivation of tobacco. This 

 act of the government killed out all the interest 

 in silk that had been awakened, notwithstanding 

 the fact that the silk produced in the colonies 

 was quoted at "two shillings" a pound more 



