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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... N. latitude and 16o , 50 ' W. longitude , we got into the small boat , thinking to go on fhore without ceremony ; but before we got half way , to our great aftonishment , a fmart firing from the fort obliged us to return to the fhip ...
... N. latitude and 16o , 50 ' W. longitude , we got into the small boat , thinking to go on fhore without ceremony ; but before we got half way , to our great aftonishment , a fmart firing from the fort obliged us to return to the fhip ...
الصفحة 24
Should you enter into business in the country , when you fee an impending shower , haften to your home , or to fome hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep ...
Should you enter into business in the country , when you fee an impending shower , haften to your home , or to fome hut , or place of shelter , till it is over ; and at working hours , when thus obliged to fhun the weather , do not keep ...
الصفحة 37
... and as it stands on a fandy beach , furrounded by the sea , the inhabitants are obliged to get their fresh water from Rochfort , or Kingston ; there are wherries hourly paffing and repaffing , between thefe places ; the ufual fare ...
... and as it stands on a fandy beach , furrounded by the sea , the inhabitants are obliged to get their fresh water from Rochfort , or Kingston ; there are wherries hourly paffing and repaffing , between thefe places ; the ufual fare ...
الصفحة 44
feet and a half square , and if the ground is not too dry and hard , forty negroes will dig an acre in a day ; the ufual price paid for holing an acre , by those who are obliged , for want of fufficient ftrength of their own , to hire ...
feet and a half square , and if the ground is not too dry and hard , forty negroes will dig an acre in a day ; the ufual price paid for holing an acre , by those who are obliged , for want of fufficient ftrength of their own , to hire ...
الصفحة 45
... of which they have long blades , fomething like flaggers ; ftill , as they grow towards maturity , thofe blades wither and become burthenfome to the ftalk , fo that they are obliged to be taken off , and this is called trashing .
... of which they have long blades , fomething like flaggers ; ftill , as they grow towards maturity , thofe blades wither and become burthenfome to the ftalk , fo that they are obliged to be taken off , and this is called trashing .
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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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