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application to be made to Bengal for supplies of (^•) 

 the annual silk-worms' eggs, to be despatched to Superintendent 

 this place by post, also for any other such eggs as °Garden!^ 

 may be likely to stand the journey. Having re- 

 ceived a requisition from the Session Judge at 

 Dharwar for a supply, in consequence of a great 

 mortality among the worms there, it is my inten- 

 tion, in the mean time, to send to that station such 

 eggs as may be procured in this part of the 

 Deccan. 



My reason for wishing for the Bengal kind is, 

 from a comparison which I was enabled to make 

 between the produce of the Italian eggs sent by 

 the Honourable the Court of Directors from St. 

 Helena, and that from the Bengal worm sent by 

 Mr. Colin Shakespear from Soonamooky. The 

 superiority of the latter renders it unnecessary to 

 continue to breed from the St. Helena stock. 



1 take this opportunity of acquainting you, that 

 I have established both the breeds sent here from 

 St. Helena in the factory at Soonamooky under 

 the care of Mr. Shakespear (after having supplied 

 the persons who attempted to grow silk in the 

 Deccan,) agreeably to the instructions of the Ho- 

 nourable Court of Directors. 



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