West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New EditionJ. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 - 192 من الصفحات |
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... shall speak from experience , for I was five years in that ifland ; and fhould what I fhall offer , prove any way inftrumental in promoting your happiness , I fhall hereafter feel a fecret fatisfaction for hav- ing employed a few vacant ...
... shall speak from experience , for I was five years in that ifland ; and fhould what I fhall offer , prove any way inftrumental in promoting your happiness , I fhall hereafter feel a fecret fatisfaction for hav- ing employed a few vacant ...
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... shall now proceed to give you a fhort dif- cription of the island of Jamaica , and of the people thereof , their manners and cuftoms . " Curft be the lines , how fmooth fo e'er they flow , " That tend to make one honest man my foe ...
... shall now proceed to give you a fhort dif- cription of the island of Jamaica , and of the people thereof , their manners and cuftoms . " Curft be the lines , how fmooth fo e'er they flow , " That tend to make one honest man my foe ...
الصفحة 58
... shall next prove clearly , that a grafs - penn , or farm , is a better property , and is attended with lefs trouble and expence than a fugar plantation . Not many years ago , grafs - penns were confidered as despicable objects for ...
... shall next prove clearly , that a grafs - penn , or farm , is a better property , and is attended with lefs trouble and expence than a fugar plantation . Not many years ago , grafs - penns were confidered as despicable objects for ...
الصفحة 75
... shall be wanting to your concerns in this quarter ; Sneaking Caution was strongly recom- mended to me by our mutual friend Doctor Bolus , and he is a fine , active , induftrious young man . As to what you mention respecting the crops ...
... shall be wanting to your concerns in this quarter ; Sneaking Caution was strongly recom- mended to me by our mutual friend Doctor Bolus , and he is a fine , active , induftrious young man . As to what you mention respecting the crops ...
الصفحة 91
... shall fairly tell , Whilft I'm a cowskin hero ! I plant fields of Indian corn , Ay , and plains of Guinea grafs ; Pamper horfes night and morn , And indulge my favourite lass . When fol is blazing in the sphere , I fit coolly with my ...
... shall fairly tell , Whilft I'm a cowskin hero ! I plant fields of Indian corn , Ay , and plains of Guinea grafs ; Pamper horfes night and morn , And indulge my favourite lass . When fol is blazing in the sphere , I fit coolly with my ...
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