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, المجلد 8 |
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The capital is Fonchial, and contains about five hundred houses ; the natives are
Portuguese, and dress in the fame uniform of their custom-house officersi their
characteristic is, that they are poor, proud, superstitious and treacherous; the
finest ...
The capital is Fonchial, and contains about five hundred houses ; the natives are
Portuguese, and dress in the fame uniform of their custom-house officersi their
characteristic is, that they are poor, proud, superstitious and treacherous; the
finest ...
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... and sixty broad, containing about six thoufand square miles, and is about four
thoufand five hundred miles from England, and was discovered jn the year 1493,
by Christopher Columbus, a very enterprising and indefatigable gentleman, ...
... and sixty broad, containing about six thoufand square miles, and is about four
thoufand five hundred miles from England, and was discovered jn the year 1493,
by Christopher Columbus, a very enterprising and indefatigable gentleman, ...
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I have always found that cisterns funk 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
a ...
I have always found that cisterns funk 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
a ...
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Any man with sour or five thoufand pounds may get possession of a plantation,
staves, &c. by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual
instalments, and giving a mortgage by way of security on the estate ; and after he
has ...
Any man with sour or five thoufand pounds may get possession of a plantation,
staves, &c. by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual
instalments, and giving a mortgage by way of security on the estate ; and after he
has ...
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to him to expose his constitution to the climate, when his falary would barely pay
for clothes, much less the doctor's exorbitant bills ; nor could such a one go with
alacrity through ths menial drudgeries of a book-keeper's life for three, four, or
five ...
to him to expose his constitution to the climate, when his falary would barely pay
for clothes, much less the doctor's exorbitant bills ; nor could such a one go with
alacrity through ths menial drudgeries of a book-keeper's life for three, four, or
five ...
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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, المجلد 8 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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