292 STRENGTH OF JUBBULPORE HEMP. 
manufactured according to the Russian method, instead of being left, as at 
present, so entirely to the careless and ignorant natives.” 
The following extract from Mr. Williams’s letter, dated Jubbulpore, the 
19th Nov., 1852, will close this brief notice of a fibre, which, no doubt, will 
be better appreciated when its merits become more generally known : 
“ T am pleased to learn that the seed of the ‘ Jubbulpore Hemp,’ sent down 
“by me in June last, has germinated so well in Calcutta. I can only grow it 
to advantage here along the ridges of the neighbouring hills (where it attains 
the height of from six to seven feet); that grown in the plains turning out 
weak in fibre when made into Hemp. I have lost considerably by sending 
this Hemp down to Calcutta for sale, having had the misfortune to have had 
several boats burnt while going down the river; and the steamers decline 
taking a cargo of it, in consequence of its combustible nature. The native 
insurance offices at Mirzapore also object to insure it, except at such high 
rates as to prevent all chance of profit ; so that if it could be cultivated along 
the banks of the river, Ihave no doubt but that in a few years it would 
turn out a profitable source of export.” 
A copy of the official Report on the Experiments made in 
the Arsenal of Fort William having been subsequently pub- 
lished, is here subjoined. 
Report of several kinds of Rope, the manufacture of Messrs. W. 
H. Harton and Co., of Calcutta, tested in the Arsenal of Fort 
William, 8d June, 1853. 
Kind and quality of Rope. Bier, || Seen | ae 
Inches.| ewt. gr. Ib. | ewt. qr. Ib. 
Oiled Jubbulpore Hemp (Crotalaria | 
|  tenuifolia), Artillery Traces . | 3 36 0 0 43 2 0 
' Untarred do., superior four-strand, | 
| plainlaid  . : . » 4 384 42 0 83 0 0 
Untarred Dunchee (Aschynomene 
cannabina), do., do. . 4 | 34 49 0 0 75 0 0 
Pine-apple Fibre, do., do. : | 32 42 0 0 57 09 0 
(Signed) J. Wirxiys, 
Officiating Prin. Conductor, 
Rear Godowns. 
Some of the properties of this fibre may no doubt be due to 
the peculiar characteristics of the plant; but a good deal is no 
doubt also due to the soil and climate in which it is grown, 
and something probably to its having been grown and prepared 
under Mr. Williams’s personal superintendence. This is ob- 
vious from the fact, stated by Mr. Williams, that he was only 
able to grow it on the sides of the hills; that grown in the 
plains below, he observes, was weaker in the fibre. Mr. Henley 
having grown some of this plant from the seed sent from 
