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Aa you have expressed a desire to have my Report, such as it is, 

 I have resolutely gone over all my notes and memoranda and re- 

 written the whole, and I send it with all its shortcomings and defects. 

 It is not easy to write a Report on Nuddea in England. Little 

 details have escaped me which I overlooked at the time, and which I 

 now cannot supply ; but I feel sure that the general impression I 

 derived from my visit to the toles is still as vivid as it ever was. 



8. From the Secretary • to the Government of India in the Home 

 Department, forwarding copies of a report on the manufacture of China 

 grass by Mr. McClintock, American Yice-Consul at Bradford. 



Be venue. India Office, London, 7 th March, 1867. 



No. 12. 

 To His Excellency the Bight Honorable the Governor- General of 

 India in Council. 

 Sir, — I transmit to your Excellency in Council thirty copies of a 

 Memorandum, by Mr. McClintock, American Vice-Consul at Brad- 

 ford, respecting the manufacture of China Grass, and the price which 

 can be obtained for it in this country, which I have received from 

 Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 



2. Lord Stanley, in transmitting this paper, informs me that he 

 lias ascertained, through the Bradford Chamber of Commerce, that 

 the importance attached by the writer of the Report to this article 

 is not exaggerated, and that nothing but its high price stands in the 

 way of its being largely consumed. 



3. Under these circumstances, I agree with the Secretary of State 

 for Foreign Affairs that it will be useful to forward copies of the 

 Report to any of the Officers of your Presidency who reside in places 

 which may be favorable to the cultivation and export of this grass. 



I have, &c, 

 No. 4159. Cranborne. 



Copy of this Despatch, together with three copies of the Report 

 referred to, forwarded to the Secretary, Asiatic Society, Bengal, for 

 information. By Order, 



(Sd.) A. P. Howell, 

 Under ISecy. to the Govt, of India, 

 Fort William , Home Department ; 

 the 22nd April, 1867. 



