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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... lash like mine no honest man shall dread , " But every dirty rascal in his stead . " POPE . Jamaica Jamaica is the richest of all the British West- India 32 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS least, only give you some temporary relief, fa ...
... lash like mine no honest man shall dread , " But every dirty rascal in his stead . " POPE . Jamaica Jamaica is the richest of all the British West- India 32 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS least, only give you some temporary relief, fa ...
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J. B. Moreton. Jamaica is the richest of all the British West- India islands , and is situated between 17o and 18 ° north latitude , and between 75 ° and 79 ° weft longitude ; it is about one hundred and fifty miles long , and fixty ...
J. B. Moreton. Jamaica is the richest of all the British West- India islands , and is situated between 17o and 18 ° north latitude , and between 75 ° and 79 ° weft longitude ; it is about one hundred and fifty miles long , and fixty ...
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... British islands might be made equal to that of Jamaica , but it is the fault of the planters in mixing the first runnings of the low wines with the rum , till it only finks a bubble of twenty - fix , twenty - seven , or twenty - eight ...
... British islands might be made equal to that of Jamaica , but it is the fault of the planters in mixing the first runnings of the low wines with the rum , till it only finks a bubble of twenty - fix , twenty - seven , or twenty - eight ...
الصفحة 92
... British colonies in the West Indies are so over - run with the sons of peasantry , from different parts of Great - Britain and Ireland , particularly from Scotland , the latter well edu- cated men in general , that it is very difficult ...
... British colonies in the West Indies are so over - run with the sons of peasantry , from different parts of Great - Britain and Ireland , particularly from Scotland , the latter well edu- cated men in general , that it is very difficult ...
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