RAW-SILK. 



205 



No. 5. 



Extract Letter from the Court of Directors to the 

 Governor-general in Council, Bengal^ dated the 

 llth September IS33, 



The two specimens of raw-silk which were spun (L.) 

 at the Experimental Filature at Howrah, at the Bengar 

 quadruple basins of Mr. Becher, and at the pottery ^^p'- 

 ghyes of Mr. Shakespear, adverted to in your let- 

 ter of 30th October 1832, have been shewn to per- 

 sons best qualified to judge of their respective 

 merits, it being explained to them that both were 

 wound from the same cocoons, and which were of 

 an unfavourable bund. Copy of their report is sent 

 in the packet, from which it appears that the dif- 

 ference in quality is not very great, but that the 

 produce of the pottery ghyes has the advantage as 

 to value, in this market ; from which, and from the 

 great saving of expense in their construction, it 

 may be expected that much benefit will be derived 

 from their more general use in Bengal. 



No. 6. 



Minute of the Bengal Board of Trade, lOth October 

 1833, and Secretay^y's Report. 



The Secretary lays before the Board the follow- Board of Trade 

 ing Report, submitted by the late Secretary, of the lo Oct. isss. 



operations 



