(the Country people say they have seen all colors) died by the Indians with some roots & weeds, which grow plentifully in the country. As the Indians know very little of the art of dying from what I have seen of their Reds I am apt to believe the root they dye that color with, may be very

valuable & we may find some commoditys which at present are not in the Least thought of

--When

I go next to the Indians country I intend to procure some quantity of them sufficient to make a few

experiments.

G0V R COSBY TO THE BOARD OF TRADE. [

Lond. Doc. XXIV. ]

New York 18th Deer 1732.

My Lords --I acknowledge the receipt of your LordPp to me of the 16 th of June last, and in pur8

suance of His Mat>' s directions to your Lordi'P s Board have made the strictest inquiry in respect to

& Trade carryed on in this Province of New York & can discover none that may in any way affect or prejudice the Trade, Navigation & Manufactures of the Kingdom of Great manufactures

Britain.

sett

up,

As to the Laws made here, I beg leave to refer your Lordpp 8 to the acts which I shall transmitt to your Lordpp 8 so soon as they are engrossed which I fear I cannot have time to have done to

The inhabitants here are more lazy & inactive than the world generally manufacture extends no farther than what is consumed in their own famillys, a few supposes, & their send by this opportunity.