INDIGO, 



65 



No. 18. 



Extract Letter from the Court of Directors to 

 the Governor-general in Council, Bengal, dated 

 the 30th March 1810. 



Par. 10. No method of comnmnicatiiig the price Letter to 

 of indigo can be so clear as by the transmission soMarcMsio. 

 of samples : but we are precluded from this mode 

 of proceeding by the length of time since our sale 

 in October, and the smallness. of the quantity then 

 offered not having been sufficient to give that sale 

 a decided character. To remedy this inconve- 

 nience, we now transmit in the packet a box of 

 omsters of indigo under the four principal qualities, 

 viz. blue, purple, violet, and copper, which those 

 samples will distinctly show, with the current 

 value of each species this day in London (19th 

 March 1810):— 



s. d. 



A. — Blue ..„ worth, per lb. lo o 



B. — Purple ..o ,f 9 o 



C— Violet .„ „ 7 6 



D. — Copper „ 5 6 



But it is to be understood that iVom the above 

 four principal qualities of indigo the assortments 

 converge into each other, viz. : — 



s. d. 



Blue, worth as above, per lb , 10 o 



Blue and violet 9 6 



Purple 9 o 



p Purple 



