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 13
The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent favour and quality ;
instead of turning four by heat like other wines , this improves vastly in warm
climates the older it becomes , and is an excellent medicine , I am informed , in ...
The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent favour and quality ;
instead of turning four by heat like other wines , this improves vastly in warm
climates the older it becomes , and is an excellent medicine , I am informed , in ...
الصفحة 58
1 and eighty puncheons of rum , the sugar to net at 15l . sterling per hogshead ,
and the rum at 121 . per puncheon , both will amount to 33601 , fter . líng ; from
which , deducting the annual expence , the remainder is 4801. in favour of the ...
1 and eighty puncheons of rum , the sugar to net at 15l . sterling per hogshead ,
and the rum at 121 . per puncheon , both will amount to 33601 , fter . líng ; from
which , deducting the annual expence , the remainder is 4801. in favour of the ...
الصفحة 99
... his favour , he may get letters of credit , and be put into business for himself ; or
if he be clever at business he may be taken into partnership , and in time his
friend and benefactor may go to Europe for the benefit of his health , whereby he
is ...
... his favour , he may get letters of credit , and be put into business for himself ; or
if he be clever at business he may be taken into partnership , and in time his
friend and benefactor may go to Europe for the benefit of his health , whereby he
is ...
الصفحة 100
1 person may infinuate himself into the favour of the public , rent a store and turn
vendue master ; the five per cent . commission on all goods he difposes of is sure
and safe profit , and in time he may make some money , get credit , and turn ...
1 person may infinuate himself into the favour of the public , rent a store and turn
vendue master ; the five per cent . commission on all goods he difposes of is sure
and safe profit , and in time he may make some money , get credit , and turn ...
الصفحة 101
... untill he is elevated , ftep after step , as I shall now mention ; the first honouc
conferred upon him is that of a justice of the peace ; next he infinuates himself
into the favour of the few freeholders of the parish wherein his involved or
mortgaged ...
... untill he is elevated , ftep after step , as I shall now mention ; the first honouc
conferred upon him is that of a justice of the peace ; next he infinuates himself
into the favour of the few freeholders of the parish wherein his involved or
mortgaged ...
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