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should see necessary. The Board thereupon issued fresh Instructions 

 to the Residents, in conformity to Mr. Fleming's Report. 



Board of Trade Cons. 8 th Sept. 1801. 



The Board also, on the 12th September, on which day Mr. 

 Frushard's Letters are recorded, remark on the experiments made 

 by him, that they think them useful, but offer some solid reasons 

 why they do not deem them conclusive. 



It appears from the Board of Trade's Consultations, 12th 

 September, 1801, that Mr. Frushard undertook to make a practical 

 trial upon forty begahs of Sunn growing in his own neighbourhood, 

 by preparing a part of it in the way prescribed by Mr. Fleming, 

 and the remainder after the method practised by the Natives ; but 

 that he failed, owing to the unfavourableness of the season. He 

 made three efforts, but was disappointed each time by the rain, which 

 prevented him from drying the plant before steeping; and again from 

 drying the fibre after separating it from the reed, which made it tender. 

 He remarked, that the plant in his neighbourhood was of a puny 

 growth, being not thicker than good wheat-straw, and of course not 

 well suited for comparison with the Up-country plant, which is so 

 superior. 



He again cited the authorities of the French professors, as to 

 the drying before watering not being productive of any good, while 

 at the same time it is attended with many inconveniences, from its 

 taking the water irregularly. 



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