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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The capital is Fonchial , and contains about five hundred houses ; the natives are
Portuguese , and dress in the same uniform of their custom - house officers ; their
characteristic is , that they are poor , proud , superftitious and treacherous ; the ...
The capital is Fonchial , and contains about five hundred houses ; the natives are
Portuguese , and dress in the same uniform of their custom - house officers ; their
characteristic is , that they are poor , proud , superftitious and treacherous ; the ...
الصفحة 33
... containing about six thoufand square miles , and is about four thousand five
hundred miles from England , and was discovered in the year 1493 , by
Christopher Columbus , a very enterprising and indefatigable gentleman , a
native of Spain ...
... containing about six thoufand square miles , and is about four thousand five
hundred miles from England , and was discovered in the year 1493 , by
Christopher Columbus , a very enterprising and indefatigable gentleman , a
native of Spain ...
الصفحة 54
I have always found that cisterns sunk in the floor , rammed well round with tough
clay , about five feet square , and five feet deep , answer better than vats ; they
should be fixed in rows with covers to them , built some distance asunder , so that
...
I have always found that cisterns sunk in the floor , rammed well round with tough
clay , about five feet square , and five feet deep , answer better than vats ; they
should be fixed in rows with covers to them , built some distance asunder , so that
...
الصفحة 58
Any man with four or five chousand pounds may get possession of a plantation ,
llaves , & c . by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual
inftalments , and giving a mortgage by way of fecurity on the estate ; and after he
has ...
Any man with four or five chousand pounds may get possession of a plantation ,
llaves , & c . by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual
inftalments , and giving a mortgage by way of fecurity on the estate ; and after he
has ...
الصفحة 80
... four , or five years ; ' for he who would wish to be an overseer must serve his
time ; during which painful period , if he does not humbly cringe , fawn , Aatter , lie
and diffemble , and bear all the overseer's insults and reproaches tamely without
...
... four , or five years ; ' for he who would wish to be an overseer must serve his
time ; during which painful period , if he does not humbly cringe , fawn , Aatter , lie
and diffemble , and bear all the overseer's insults and reproaches tamely without
...
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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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