300 Mr. Blane’s Account , &c. 
your poffeffion all the data I have been able to collet upon, the 
fubjedt, you may make what ufe of them you pleafe. 
I fliall conclude with a few obfervations regarding the cre- 
dibility of the relation : and, firft, that it is really brought 
from the Tibbet mountains is certain, as I have myfelf often 
had occafion to fee large quantities of it brought down, and 
have purchafed from the Tartar mountaineers, who brought it 
to market ; fecondly, I have never heard of its being either 
produced or brought into this country from any other quarter ; 
and, thirdly, if it was made on the Coromandel coaft, as 
fome books mention, I think there can be little doubt, but 
that the whole procefs would have been fully enquired into, and 
given to the public long before this time. 
Lucknow, Augufl 28» 1786. 
