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31st January last has been sent to me, and I have (K.) 

 endeavoured (under date the 2d mstant*) to an- superintendent 

 swer all your queries in the best manner I am ^Garden^ 

 able ; but my experience in this department is 

 about on a par with your own, of four years at 

 Poonah. No doubt, however, Dr Wallich will 

 supply the most accurate information on the 

 varieties of the mulberry-plant in Bengal. 



3. I have the pleasure to send you a statement f 

 which I had occasion to draw up two years ago, 

 giving a minute detail of the produce of the 

 periodical cocoon bunds throughout the year, in the 

 silk aurungs west of the Baughrutty river, shewing 

 the cost of rearing the cocoon and manufactured 

 silk of different assortments,:}: to which is added 

 the expense of cultivating a begah of mulberry 

 land. This may be useful to you in the progress 

 of your researches, especially considering the very 

 little advance, from whatever cause, which you 

 state to have been made during a period of the 

 past ten years at Dharwar and Poonah, both in the 

 1 1 cultivation and manufacture. 



4. I should 



* To the Secretary to the Board of Trade. 



t See 1 ith April 1831, then submitted to the Board. 



' I J You say the silk of Dharwar and Horblee sells in the bazaar 

 1 1 at three and a-half to four rupees per seer. This seems remark- 

 I ably cheap, if good, and yt)u reckon forty seers to the maund, 

 ^ I as we do. 



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