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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الصفحة 32
... shall now proceed to give you a fhort difcription of the island of Jamaica , and of the people thereof , their manners and customs . " 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 difcription of the island of Jamaica , and of the people thereof , their manners and customs . " Curft be the lines , how fmooth fo e'er they flow , " That tend to make one honest man my foe ...
الصفحة 42
... shall give you a sketch of each . The piece of ground intended for canes is firft cleared of all fhrubbery , and lined , if level , from one end to the other , as ftrait as poffible with a line and fquare : the line is is marked at ...
... shall give you a sketch of each . The piece of ground intended for canes is firft cleared of all fhrubbery , and lined , if level , from one end to the other , as ftrait as poffible with a line and fquare : the line is is marked at ...
الصفحة 55
... shall next fhew an easy and exact method of calculating them without meafuring the liquors ; if the vats or cifterns are equally round or fquare at bottom and top , let the exact depth with a rod be taken , and that divided into an ...
... shall next fhew an easy and exact method of calculating them without meafuring the liquors ; if the vats or cifterns are equally round or fquare at bottom and top , let the exact depth with a rod be taken , and that divided into an ...
الصفحة 58
... shall next prove clearly , that a grass - 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 grass - 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 141
... shall wittingly , wantonly , or bloody - mindedly kill any negroe or flave , fuch perfon or perfons fo offending fhall for the first offence be guilty of felony , and have the benefit of the clergy , and shall fuffer as a further ...
... shall wittingly , wantonly , or bloody - mindedly kill any negroe or flave , fuch perfon or perfons fo offending fhall for the first offence be guilty of felony , and have the benefit of the clergy , and shall fuffer as a further ...
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