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the latter mode, and arrived in a very ill-cleaned state, full of stalks, 

 and appeared to be much inferior to the Sunn made in the Country 

 Way. Board of Trade Cons. \3th July, 1801. 



Dr. Roxburgh, the Superintendant of the Company's Botanical 

 Garden at Calcutta, in an Essay on the Culture, Properties, and 

 Comparative Strength of Hemp, Sunn, and various other vegetable 

 Fibres, (entered on the Public Consultations, the 12th of February, 

 1801), in speaking of some samples of Sunn (Crotolaria junceaj, 

 that were sent him from Bombay by Dr. "William Hunter, says : 



" I am induced to think, that little or no maceration is 

 employed in taking the bark from the stalks, or in cleaning the fibre, 

 which may add to its strength ; for certainly maceration, particularly 

 if long continued, must weaken fresh vegetable fibres considerably." 



