REPORT. 



Indigo was a prominent article of importation by Report, 

 the East-India Company during the first century 

 of their commerce. The British colonists in the 

 West-Indies and the southern parts of North 

 America, having however given attention to its 

 cultivation and manufacture, at length succeeded 

 in producing considerable quantities of very good 

 quality, and the Company then discontinued their 

 imports. 



About the year 1747, most of the planters in 

 Jamaica and other British possessions in the 

 West-Indies relinquished the cultivation, and the 

 Spanish and French colonies (where the best kinds 

 had been made) continuing to export, the British 

 consumption of the finer sorts was chiefly ob- 

 tained from foreign sources in Europe. 



When the British provinces of North America 

 had broken off their connexion with the parent 

 state, and the Company's territories in India had 

 become greatly extended, another change took 

 a 2 place. 



