RAW-SILK. 



171 



Which begah produces fourteen loads^ at 



one rupee each 14 o o 



Gain Rupees 440 



If forty-four bundles are obtained in the 



year from one begah, the produce will be 44 o o 



Deduct charges cultivating and rearing 9 12 o 



Profit Rupees 34 4 o 



Colin Shakespear, 

 Resident. 



Soonamooky Residency, 

 11th April 1831. 



(E.) 



Letter 

 referred to in 

 page 161. 



No. 15. 



Letter from the Superintendent of the Company s 

 Botanic Garden to the Secretary of the Board of 

 Trade, dated the 2Sth September 1833. 



I request you will permit me to enquire, whe- Letter from 



^ ^ ^ ^ f ^ Superintendent 



ther the Board of Trade is in possession of any of Botanic 



1 . 1 n 11 Garden, 



information relative to two chests of mulberry- 28 Sept. 1833. 

 plants which have come round from Bombay on 

 the Sir Charles Malcolm. Yesterday afternoon I 

 received the first and only intimation of this con- 

 signment, in a note from the Commander, in which 

 I was informed that the plants had arrived off 

 Calcutta more than ten days ago. I sent for them 



directly, 



