List of Articles Purchased by Fizeaux, Grand & Cie.
on Franklin’s Orders
D: Library of Congress
<Amsterdam, August 26, 1779: The articles in question, to be
purchased in Holland and delivered to Nantes by La Ville de
Bordeaux, Capt. Claas, are thirteen in number. Eleven of them
call for pharmaceuticals, two for textiles. The pharmaceuticals
comprise large quantities of hipoquana root and jalap (both
purgatives), sublimated sulphur (fleur de soufre), pannacea mere,
opium, two kinds of rhubarb, two kinds of quinine, and refined
camphor. The textiles are divided between Osnabrück
linen and sail cloth. The total cost, including the extras,
amounts to 2810 banco florins.>
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