APPENDIX 
The sketches I here offer may give some idea 
of how great the value of that production is which 
nature has bestowed on Italy. 
Exportation of Silk, and Articles connected therewith 
from Italy. 
1807. 
lbs. 
Raw silk*, Milan pound of 
12 ounces . . . 137,518 
Spun silk .... 3,038,372 
Milau livrest. 
2,475,324 
42,805,812 
Augmentation of 15 per 100 
45,281,136 ) 
7,792,170 J 
52,073,306 
Dyed silk 
Coarse silk (or Filoselle') 
Floss 
Coarse Floss 
Silk stuffs . 
Mixed ditto 
Floss ditto . 
Gauze and veils . 
Sewing silk 
Ribands, silk, and mixed 
Ditto floss 
Sundries 
255,367 7,607,754 
80.100 220,275 
74.100 111,160 
721,100 273,384 
179,331 12,620,490 
1,069 47,180 
9,961 219,025 
30,311 2,727,990 
5,332 243,094 
23,586 909,540 
7,858 196,450 
. 1,051,612 26,257,944 
Total . . 78,331,250 
* As I before observed, the 28 ounces of Milan are equivalent 
to about 25 French ounces. 
t Six livres, ten sous, three deniers of Milan, are worth five 
French francs. 
Q 6 
