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Source 5a
The Quantity of Raw Silk raised in the last Season was very little more
than what was produced in the foregoing, which was owing to the uncommon
Severity and Length of the Winter, which killed many of the Worms at the
first hatching. However, as several more Women then learnt the Art of Reeling,
as two more Filatures have since then been built, and the Plantations of
Mulberry
Source 5b
Trees are greatly improved, some Increase of the Silk must be reasonably
expected this year. But if the aforesaid Messieurs Habersham and Robinson
of Savanah in Georgia are empowered to draw as far as the Sum of One thousand
pounds for Expences defrayed by them on the Silk Accounts .. |
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