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opinion entertained of their quality or from the (H.) 

 prices which they produced, that any inn provement ^icl^^X 

 whatsoever has been imparted to the silk by the i'^-^""«i^29. 

 employment of the reels in question. 



The bales of the patent reeled silk reserved in 

 our warehouses for future sale, resemble in all 

 respects those already disposed of, and we doubt 

 not will be regarded in the same light by the 

 trade. 



Seventy bales remain to be received in the pre- 

 sent year to complete the number of one hundred, 

 to which, by the agreement of the Board of Trade 

 with the agents of the patentee, the experiment 

 was to be extended. 



We consider it therefore inexpedient, upon the 

 present occasion, to direct that any further engage- 

 ment be entered into for the employment of the 

 reels in question at any of our filatures, but shall 

 take the subject into our further consideration 

 after we shall have received the larger parcel still 

 due. 



EMract Letter dated I6t/i June 1830. 

 Amonscst the bales of Runo pore silk imported L^ttr to 



^ or r Bengal, 



in 1829, we find only one that had been wound by leJuneisso. 

 Heathcoate's patent reel, but five bales of the same 

 description have been received from the Santipore 

 factory. In all these, as in the parcels referred to 

 in paragraphs 46 and 47 of our letter of 10th June 

 1829, we do not find any superiority over other 



silks 



