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RAW SILK. 



Silk Cocoons Bauleah, 

 of Bengal. 



With exception to the annual worm, which has 

 been observed upon in a preceding part of this 

 minute, as the produce of the Bauleah district, the 

 dessee assortment with the madrassie would appear 

 to constitute the only remaining produce carried 

 to the Bauleah filatures. 



The best cocoons of the October bund are re- 

 served for saunch or seed for the November bund, 

 and the same with regard to the seed of No- 

 vember bund for the March bund. In the remaining 

 bunds of the year (viz. April, June, July, and 

 September), the Bauleah Resident observes, that 

 the dessee cocoons are reared in small quantities, 

 owing to the madrassie cocoons yielding better 

 produce and the better quality of silk. 



The district of Bauleah prodiices cocoons in so 

 great abundance, that it is believed any quantity 

 of silk can be procured from it ; certainly a quan- 

 tity far beyond the means of the Company's fila- 

 tures to work off. In the year 1811, when hired 

 native filatures were worked in aid of those of the 

 Honourable Company, the quantity of silk supplied 

 to the Honourable Company from the Bauleah 

 district was 2,708 maunds, in part of which was 

 provided from the March and November dessee 

 cocoons, silk maunds 1,803.. 10. In the April, 

 June, July, and September bunds, in which, the 

 Resident observes, there is but a small quantity of 



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