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KEPORT ON 



Report. however, appears not to have been done. The 

 method of spinning and drawing the silk as prac- 

 ticed at Novi in Italy, was to be adopted throughout 

 all the filatures, the superintendents and spinners 

 proceeding from factory to factory, until the new 

 method should be universally established. 



Various tools, implements, and models, manu- 

 factured in London and at Novi, were forwarded 

 to Bengal for the use of the establishments. j 



Mr. Wiss and the four Italian winders arrived 

 in Bengal in 1770, and were employed at the 

 factory of Cossimbuzar. Their method of winding 

 the silk was found to differ from Mr. Pouchon's, 

 by making two threads wound off upon the same 

 reel cross each other, so as to give the silk a 

 roundness, the want of which was the chief defect 

 in that produced under Mr. Pouchon's manage- 

 ment, as well as that wound in the country manner. 



Mr. Robinson arrived in Bengal in 1770, and 

 was likewise stationed at Cossimbuzar, at which 

 place a filature on the Italian plan with furnaces 

 was erected under the superintendance of Mr. 

 Wiss. Mr. Aubert did not reach Bengal, but died 

 at Madras on his way thither, in 1771, 



In a short time after their arrival, Messrs. Wiss 

 and Robinson reported to the Government, that 



the 



