RAW-SILK. 



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Extract Minutes of the Bengal Board of Trade, 

 23rd April and 24th September 1819, on the 

 Silk Cocoons of BejigaL 



The Large or Annual Cocoon. 

 Cossimbuzar. 



(E.) 



This species of cocoon, as its name implies, is snu cocoons 

 reared only once in the year. In the district of ° ° ' 

 Cossimbuzar it appears to predominate more than 

 at any other of the Honourable Company's fila- 

 tures. The Resident at Cossimbuzar observes, 

 respecting it, that the March bund silk is produced 

 from this annual cocoon. The March bund at 

 this factory is second with regard to quantity, but 

 first with respect to quality, of all the bunds in 

 the year, because being, as before observed, the 

 produce of the annual cocoon. The Resident 

 states that 150,000 sicca rupees may be realized 

 annually in silk, the produce of this worm. 



Bauleah, 



The annual cocoon appears to be produced at 

 Bauleah; but the Resident observes, in the en- 

 closure to his letter of the 3rd September 1817, 

 that during that year not a single cocoon of the 

 above description was produced at any of his 

 filatures. 



HurripauL 



