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X Indigo was preparing here from the wild indigo plant. I am informed that the Spanish indigo has already been introduced into Texas and succeeds very well.

  The indigo plant is boiled, (instead of the former way of fermenting it) strained, then agitated or churned for some time; lime water "or the juice of some vary astringent vegetable vegetable, & added to it, & it is left to precipitate or settle to the bottom, the liquor is drawn off, & the blue mass or indigo left to dry

[[note has No. 3 p99 on journy to [Mugwy?]]