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 14
I was hurt very much whenever I faw any of their bald - pated hypocritical guardians , called fryars : thofe artful dogs are numerous , and frequently parade the ftreets in proceffion with an air of folemnity ; the deluded nuns think ...
I was hurt very much whenever I faw any of their bald - pated hypocritical guardians , called fryars : thofe artful dogs are numerous , and frequently parade the ftreets in proceffion with an air of folemnity ; the deluded nuns think ...
الصفحة 16
At night you will think the air is on fire , occafioned by a fort of infects called fire - flies , which sparkle like fire , a few of which , in the darkest room , give fuch light that you may read a book thereby .
At night you will think the air is on fire , occafioned by a fort of infects called fire - flies , which sparkle like fire , a few of which , in the darkest room , give fuch light that you may read a book thereby .
الصفحة 21
When a doctor ( as he is called ) gets the quackery of two or three plantations , he is looked upon as an Efculapeus of the times by the managers and overseers , and gets the quackery of them and their friends also , so that it never ...
When a doctor ( as he is called ) gets the quackery of two or three plantations , he is looked upon as an Efculapeus of the times by the managers and overseers , and gets the quackery of them and their friends also , so that it never ...
الصفحة 33
There are about forty towns and villages , amongst which none are worthy of note but Kingston , Saint Jago de la Vega , vulgarly called Spanish Town , Port Royal , and Montego Bay , the reft hardly deferve the name of villages ...
There are about forty towns and villages , amongst which none are worthy of note but Kingston , Saint Jago de la Vega , vulgarly called Spanish Town , Port Royal , and Montego Bay , the reft hardly deferve the name of villages ...
الصفحة 34
The theatre is a little , mean , narrow , close , fabrick ; there is also another public building , called Ranelagh House , in which ladies and gentlemen hold publick balls and affemblies ; there are alfo two free mafon lodges ...
The theatre is a little , mean , narrow , close , fabrick ; there is also another public building , called Ranelagh House , in which ladies and gentlemen hold publick balls and affemblies ; there are alfo two free mafon lodges ...
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