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 34
The theatre is a little , mean , narrow , clore , fabrick ; there is also another public building , called Ranelagh House , in which ladies and gentlemen hold publick balls and assemblies ; there are also two free mason lodges , to wit ...
The theatre is a little , mean , narrow , clore , fabrick ; there is also another public building , called Ranelagh House , in which ladies and gentlemen hold publick balls and assemblies ; there are also two free mason lodges , to wit ...
الصفحة 36
... and on sundays drive about the town and country , like ladies and gentlemen , superbly decorated in fineries ; the spoils of war , plundered from infar tuated tars ; this is quite common ; nay , people of every rank and denomination ...
... and on sundays drive about the town and country , like ladies and gentlemen , superbly decorated in fineries ; the spoils of war , plundered from infar tuated tars ; this is quite common ; nay , people of every rank and denomination ...
الصفحة 62
... I was shortly after received very politely ; he made several apologies for his ' rashness ; that he took me to be a marfhal , & c . & c . He had an elegant house , and a 1 fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and.
... I was shortly after received very politely ; he made several apologies for his ' rashness ; that he took me to be a marfhal , & c . & c . He had an elegant house , and a 1 fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and.
الصفحة 63
1 fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they lived most luxuriously , in defiance of the law ! There is a law of the island favouring insolvent debtors , by which any person in the space of three months , by rendering all his ...
1 fine parcel of creole ladies about him , and they lived most luxuriously , in defiance of the law ! There is a law of the island favouring insolvent debtors , by which any person in the space of three months , by rendering all his ...
الصفحة 67
... most noble and clever ) ; Likewife Mr. Randum , a foolish young man , Monsieur Jaw , a brave count , but meagre and wan ; Mrs. Abraham's , a lady who seem'd very sick , And her hopeful sweet offspring , master Allick .
... most noble and clever ) ; Likewife Mr. Randum , a foolish young man , Monsieur Jaw , a brave count , but meagre and wan ; Mrs. Abraham's , a lady who seem'd very sick , And her hopeful sweet offspring , master Allick .
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