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it does not answer, peeling might be done afterwards, where some 

 Jittle progress had been made ; the difficulty will be in the outset. 



Board of Trade Cons. \lth July , 1801. 



Soonamooky. — The difference in preparation are the drying, 

 the shorter period of steeping, and the second drying and peeling,. 

 which differ from the mode in practice. The Natives urge, the 

 time of steeping is too short to admit of the fibres separating easily, 

 and will require compensation for the additional labour. 



Board of Trade Cons. 11th July, 1801. 



Santtpore. — The mode of preparation required does not 

 differ materially from that in practice. If what is prescribed is not 

 suitable or convenient, some easy mode may be contrived. 



The Resident offers a hint of bruising the plants with rollers, 

 as is done with the sugar-cane^ and afterwards striking them upon 

 sloping planks, in the manner they thresh the corn ; or to lay them 

 on planks, and beat them with a mallet. He thinks this would be 

 an expeditious mode, and that what fragments remained therein 

 might afterwards be picked out with the fingers. 



The Sunn gets so entangled in peeling with the hand, that it is 

 almost impossible to unravel it* Will have it tried again, but broke 

 and beat in the water, until the pith is cleared, in the manner prac- 

 - tised by the Natives. Board of Trade Cons. \%th Sept. 1S01. 



Mr. Frushard, in his objection to Mr. Fleming's method of 

 preparing Sunn, on the subject of peeling, says: — Peeling is 



sometimes 



