APPENDIX. 
365 
individuals. Hitherto this most valuable pursuit has 
only presented a mass of various and different methods, 
most of which were uncertain, and many absurd. 
The manner of manufacturing silk may vary in dif- 
ferent civilized countries, according as the fashions 
change, but silk will never cease to be most eagerly 
sought after among all nations. No natural or arti- 
fi.cial production can vie with silk either in magnificence 
or brilliancy. Courts and nobles may in vain seek, in 
any other material, ornaments to gratify their vanity or 
their luxury ; and the temples of religion could find 
nothing more sumptuous to decorate their high solem- 
nities. 
The object, therefore, is to produce silk in quan- 
tities either raw, spun, or manufactured, to supply 
the whole globe with it. 
The various reckonings and calculations that I have 
made were always grounded upon authentic facts 
drawn from the registers of the administration of the 
ex-kingdom of Italy. Each Italian province, that was 
not included in this kingdom, might calculate the 
amount of exported silk within itself, and in this man- 
ner might be known the immense value of the silk the 
whole of Italy exports. 
Fortunate shall I be, if, having examined the detail 
of this great object of national industry, I may, by 
inspiring the wish of rearing silk-worms skilfully, con- 
tribute to ameliorate the condition of the industrious. 
THE END. 
