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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... their nakedness , will affect you not a little . At night you will think the air is on
fire , occasioned by a sort of insects called fire - fies , which sparkle like fire , a
few of which , in the darkest room , give such light that you may read a book
thereby .
... their nakedness , will affect you not a little . At night you will think the air is on
fire , occasioned by a sort of insects called fire - fies , which sparkle like fire , a
few of which , in the darkest room , give such light that you may read a book
thereby .
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 rest hardly deserve the name of villages , only small ...
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 rest hardly deserve the name of villages , only small ...
الصفحة 34
The theatre is a licule , mean , narrow , close , 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 licule , mean , narrow , close , 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 35
... and lodging houses in Kingston , but none so elegant , nor conducted with
such regularity , as the one Mark Howard kept , now called the South Sea House
; there are also an incredible number of petty ones , called grog shops , occupied
by ...
... and lodging houses in Kingston , but none so elegant , nor conducted with
such regularity , as the one Mark Howard kept , now called the South Sea House
; there are also an incredible number of petty ones , called grog shops , occupied
by ...
الصفحة 48
... and then raked up and carried to a long large shade , called a trash - house ,
where they are piled , as being the only fuel for boiling the sugar ; a prudent
manager will always endeavour to keep his crashhouses full , so that at the
beginning ...
... and then raked up and carried to a long large shade , called a trash - house ,
where they are piled , as being the only fuel for boiling the sugar ; a prudent
manager will always endeavour to keep his crashhouses full , so that at the
beginning ...
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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 Eighteenth century 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, J. B. Moreton |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | جامعة أوكسفورد |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 8 أيار (مايو) 2009 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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