IS JUNGEPORE. 
the boys. The superintendants have five rupees, and get a few 
anas out of the wages of the workmen under them. The rest of the 
three thousand are wood cutters, watermen, kc. whose wages vary. 
They use the Italian method of spinning, which was "introduced 
about forty years ago, by some natives of that country sent over 
by the Company for that purpose. The silk is twisted, which was 
not the case in the native manufactures. The untwisted is worth 
less than the Italian, by two rupees a seer.* The India Company 
manufacture none of this, but purchase a considerable quantity to 
send home. It is used for articles where silk is mixed with cotton, 
with which it blends better from its flatness. They have three kinds 
of silk-worm in the country; first, the annual, which came from Tip- 
pera, is by far the largest and best, but gives only one crop ; second, 
the one commonly reared, which is supposed to be indigenous, 
and is called the Dacey : this produces eight harvests ; third, and 
worst, the China or Madrassy, which also yields eight times a year. 
These kinds are bred by the women and children. The worms are 
private property, and the coccoons are purchased by the India Com- 
pany. The mulberry tree is the oriental, dwarfish, and the leaves 
but indifferent, to which is attributed a degeneracy in the breeds 
that have been introduced from foreign countries. The China 
mulberry has been tried, but it did not succeed from the dryness of 
the soil. Three different kinds of silk are prepared : the first, is 
made from the annual coccoon; the second, from the Dacey and 
Madrassy, and consists of from twelve to fourteen threads ; the third, 
also from the Dacey and Madrassy, and consists of sixteen, eighteen, 
twenty, and as many as twenty-four threads. The quantity sent 
* About two pounds. 
