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very important subject, we have watched its pro- (G.) 

 gross with considerable attention, so far as the B^n^^a^ 

 proceedings of your Board of Trade have enabled ^^^^y ^^27. 

 us to do ; and we trust nothing will have occurred 

 to prevent your Board of Trade from making the 

 report which you instructed them to prepare at 

 the close of the year 1826, upon the receipt of 

 which we shall not fail to take the matter into 

 our particular consideration. 



Ej:tract Letter, dated Uth May 1828. 



Among the bales of Santipore silk in the last Letter to 

 import, there are five described as produced from i4Ma')fi828. 

 cocoons of neez cultivation, four of which are 

 stated to have been of the April and one of the 

 November bund. We have caused these silks to 

 be compared with those spun from cocoons of the 

 same bunds supplied in the usual way, but have 

 been disappointed in finding that they are consi- 

 dered to possess scarcely any superiority, either 

 as to colour or quality, over the general run of 

 ordinary Santipore bales; and the price which they 

 produced at our sale confirms this opinion. 



On the arrival of a larger quantity of the neez 

 silks when the experiment shall have been in a 

 more advanced state, we hope to find very dis- 

 tinct characteristics of superiority over the silks 

 made from the common cocoons. With reference 

 to paragraph 54 of our letter of the 17th May 



1826, 



