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APPENDIX. 
This calculation may appear exorbitant ; but on re- 
flection, I am fain to believe most persons will find it 
moderate. 
I was obliged in this account to diminish the value 
of exported silk, confounding it with the production of 
the cocoons ; I could not do otherwise, as silk is ex- 
ported, and not the cocoons. 
From all I have said and demonstrated, there is a 
certainty, that in augmenting the annual production 
and exportation of silk by forty millions only, there 
would be a net profit to the country of two-thirds, or 
above twenty-six millions a year. 
Hitherto I have only considered silk as an export- 
able production ; but it must evidently appear that its 
annual value augments prodigiously, when we reflect 
on the quantity which is externally required for our 
wants, and by our habits. 
It is certainly not easy to foresee to what sum the 
value of exportable silk may rise, if the art of culti- 
vating it becomes national, and the objects of the care 
and attention of intelligent, scientific, and patriotic 
apoplectic stroke in bis villa at Varese. He was lamented by 
the people, to whom he was a father, and will be long regretted 
by those who know how to appreciate distinguished and useful 
men in domestic economy. 
He had told me, and his brother-in-law Mr. Grossi has con- 
firmed me in the idea since, that he did not hope to obtain 
much more satisfactory results, on the culture of mulberry-trees, 
than those which had beer, published some years since by his 
friend Count Verri. 
I have stated in my advertisement that I hope soon to publish 
this book in French, which, being a short volume, will he 
cheap; 1 shall add to it a few notes found in M. Dandolo’s 
manuscripts communicated to me by Doctor Grossi. — (Trans- 
lator.) 
