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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... Town , Port Royal , and Montego Bay , the rest hardly deserve the name of villages , only small places of shipping around the island . Kingston Kingston is about a mile long and the same in OF THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 33.
... Town , Port Royal , and Montego Bay , the rest hardly deserve the name of villages , only small places of shipping around the island . Kingston Kingston is about a mile long and the same in OF THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 33.
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J. B. Moreton. Kingston is about a mile long and the same in breadth , containing about two thousand houses , besides negro huts ; the number of white inhabi- tants are about three thousand , free people of colour twelve hundred , and ...
J. B. Moreton. Kingston is about a mile long and the same in breadth , containing about two thousand houses , besides negro huts ; the number of white inhabi- tants are about three thousand , free people of colour twelve hundred , and ...
الصفحة 35
... same manner , so that a stranger or drunken man , of a dark night , unless he walks in the middle of the street , is liable to get his bones broke ; the streets are sandy , and when it blows strong the dust rarifies so abundantly , that ...
... same manner , so that a stranger or drunken man , of a dark night , unless he walks in the middle of the street , is liable to get his bones broke ; the streets are sandy , and when it blows strong the dust rarifies so abundantly , that ...
الصفحة 39
... same day a plantation was re- moved more than a mile from its former situation . In consequence of such just and infcrutable judg- ments of the creator , and judge of heaven and earth , for their manifold sins and wickedness , an act ...
... same day a plantation was re- moved more than a mile from its former situation . In consequence of such just and infcrutable judg- ments of the creator , and judge of heaven and earth , for their manifold sins and wickedness , an act ...
الصفحة 40
... same effect as foap in washing . The mangrove , which grows in marshy places close to the sea , upon the roots of which oysters of a delicate and delicious flavour grow ; the manchioneal tree , the wood of which , though valuable and ...
... same effect as foap in washing . The mangrove , which grows in marshy places close to the sea , upon the roots of which oysters of a delicate and delicious flavour grow ; the manchioneal tree , the wood of which , though valuable and ...
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