16 June 1830. 



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which we have formerly called for, and without 

 which we shall remain unable to appreciate the 

 merits of the undertaking. 



EMract Letter, dated I6th June 1830. (G.) 



Four bales only of silk of the neez cultivation Bengal^ 

 have been received in 1829, two of which have 

 been sold, but are not at all superior to the silks 

 of the same bund spun from cocoons obtained in 

 the usual manner. 



We still remain uninformed of the progress of 

 this experiment ; but as the Board of Trade, in 

 their letter to the Resident dated 22d May 1829, 

 have required an early report thereupon, we may 

 expect to be shortly in possession of the required 

 communication. 



Extract Letter, dated 20th July 1831. 

 The proposition of the Commercial Resident at Letter to 



^ . . . - Bengal, 



Santipore tor institutmg an experimental neez, sojuiyissi. 

 or as it is explained, domestic cultivation of mul- 

 berry, and of rearing silk-worms, is brought to our 

 notice in paragraphs 32 to 37 of your letter of the 

 31st December 1824, from which we at first un- 

 derstood that the entire process of planting the 

 mulberry, of rearing the silk-worms, and of winding 

 off the silk, was to be conducted under the personal 

 inspection and direction of the Commercial Resi- 

 dent and factory servants ; that the ground was to 

 be hired by the Resident, the necessary buildings 



erected, 



