SILK FOR THE MARKET. 



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BOOK OF SILK FROM CHINA. 



SLIP FROM BEKGAL. 



We may aptly conclude our account of this 

 most industrious silk -manufacturer in the words 

 of the Rev. Samuel Pullein, M.A., who, so long 

 ago as 1758, wrote an Essay on the Culture of 

 Silk, in which the following passage occurs: 



" There is scarce anything among the various 

 wonders which the animal creation affords more 

 admirable than the variety of changes which the 

 silkworm undergoes; but the curious texture of 

 that silken covering with which it surrounds itself 



