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" a greater progress in feeding silk worms
" than any other of the colonies but yet her
"people do not make near the quaintities they
"might supposing they made two pounds a
"head and less than that I have never
"made for every person I have employed
"in it this would be a vast aquisition for
"all the women many of the children the old
"men and disabled persons with proper assistance
"from others and in Carolina where the people
"are so much more numerous the importance
"of the object would be still greater This
"is so favorite a theme with me that were
"I to trouble you with all I could say on
"the subject I should go near to exhaust
"your patience ~

"Hemp has been to inconsiderable an

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