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KAW-SILK. 



Silk Cocoons Jungypore. 



of Bengal. 



The produce of the China worm in the Jung-y- 

 pore district is estimated by the Resident, in a 

 favourable season, at 3,500 maunds. 



Hurripaul. 



At Hurripaul the China cocoon is also abundant. 

 It is produced, the Resident observes, in every 

 bund of the year except the March bund, and con- 

 tinues coming on until February. Five-eighths of 

 the produce consist of these cocoons. 



The fibre of this cotton is finer and weaker than 

 that of the March bund cocoons, and the silk, in 

 every respect, inferior. The quality of this silk 

 varies according to the bund. 



Malda. 



The produce of the China cocoons in the Malda 

 district is so rare as not to be worthy of notice. 



The Nistry Tribe of Cocoons, 



In which may be comprehended the madrassie 

 of some of the filatures. 



Of the origin of this tribe of silk-worm, and the 

 import of its denomination {nisti^y) the Board are 

 not able to speak with the degree of precision it 

 were to be wished. The tribe appears to be com- 

 posed of three species, viz, madrassie, soonamooky, 



and 



