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 Edition |
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الصفحة 41
The trees are amazing high , appearing to touch the cloud - capt towers , and are always vocal with the mufic of variety of birds , particularly parrots , paroquets , wood - peckers , and doves of various kinds the mournful cooing of ...
The trees are amazing high , appearing to touch the cloud - capt towers , and are always vocal with the mufic of variety of birds , particularly parrots , paroquets , wood - peckers , and doves of various kinds the mournful cooing of ...
الصفحة 45
... and obferving the grain : if it appears foft and moift , like a potatoe or turnip , it is too green : but if dry , and white particles appear , you may be fure that the cane is ripe ; any man , who is a planter , will know when they ...
... and obferving the grain : if it appears foft and moift , like a potatoe or turnip , it is too green : but if dry , and white particles appear , you may be fure that the cane is ripe ; any man , who is a planter , will know when they ...
الصفحة 49
... or five years : He may attempt it , -but how infignificant and aukward must a man appear , who attempts or undertakes a business he knows nothing about ; he may may think , and fay , " My overfeers and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS .
... or five years : He may attempt it , -but how infignificant and aukward must a man appear , who attempts or undertakes a business he knows nothing about ; he may may think , and fay , " My overfeers and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS .
الصفحة 89
... partner would appear as an angel amongst naked rude blacks , and attract her husband to fquander that time which fhould be devoted to plantation duty in a more delightful manner ; fo that batchelors fare beft , on which account they ...
... partner would appear as an angel amongst naked rude blacks , and attract her husband to fquander that time which fhould be devoted to plantation duty in a more delightful manner ; fo that batchelors fare beft , on which account they ...
الصفحة 98
lodging ; and though one gets a falary of 1501 . or 2001. fterling per annum , he cannot fave fixpence , if he lives and appears in the manner clerks generally do ; nay , it will be good œco nomy if he keeps himfelf clear of debt ...
lodging ; and though one gets a falary of 1501 . or 2001. fterling per annum , he cannot fave fixpence , if he lives and appears in the manner clerks generally do ; nay , it will be good œco nomy if he keeps himfelf clear of debt ...
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| العنوان | 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 Edition Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | المكتبة البريطانية |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 21 تشرين الأول (أكتوبر) 2013 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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