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REPORT ON 



Report. Spanish, and capable of being used for all the 

 purposes to which the latter were applied, if 

 reeled in the same manner, so as to render it easier 

 to wind, and to make it work with less waste. 

 With such advantage, it was believed a much 

 higher price might be obtained. With regard to 

 the first letter of Commercolly silk, it was repre- 

 sented that, if it would wind and rid as fast as the 

 Italian or Piedmontese sorts, five hundred bales 

 would be taken off by the London market, instead 

 of twenty or thirty bales, and at an advance of 

 tv^enty-five to thirty per cent. In the lower let- 

 ters proportionate advance was anticipated. Even 

 those of D and E might, it was said, be so ma- 

 nufactured, as perfectly to answer the purposes to 

 which the Spanish and Calabrian silks were ap- 

 plied, and to bear an increase of twenty per cent, 

 on the price, while no quantity could be too large 

 for the demand. 



To secure the realization of the desired im- 

 provements, the Court deemed it expedient to 

 engage experienced persons to proceed to India, 

 in order to superintend and assist in raising and 

 improving the produce of the worms and the 

 drawing the silk from the cocoons, according to 

 the best methods practised in Italy, and other 

 parts of Europe. 



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