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factory, and the proportions of the different divi- Report, 

 sions of the fine, middling, and coarse sizes, are 

 shown in Appendix D. 



The Court also desired, in their Commercial 

 letter to Bengal of the same year, that a small 

 quantity of each species of cocoon reared in the 

 vicinity of their several factories should be sent 

 to England, with descriptions of the different 

 kinds and statements of their relative abundance. 

 Thie cocoons arrived in 1819 and 1820, but for 

 the most part in a damaged state. At the same 

 time were received copies of reports from the 

 Board of Trade to the Bengal Government, con- 

 taining information upon the varieties of the 

 Bengal silk-worms furnished by the different Com- 

 mercial Residents. Extracts from these reports 

 are given in the Appendix E, and subjoined to 

 them is a report furnished some years preceding 

 from the Resident at Soonamooky, on the tussah, 

 or wild silk-worm, from the cocoons of which silk 

 occasionally had been furnished in small quantities 

 for the Company's investment. 



In the year 1 823, in consequence of the exten- 

 sion of the Company's filatures in conformity 

 with the Court's directions of the preceding years, 

 and of the probability that the whole, or nearly 

 ii. (c) the 



