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 EditionJ. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 - 192 من الصفحات |
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... thou- fand fquare miles , and is about four thousand five hundred miles from England , and was discovered in the year 1493 , by Chriftopher Columbus , a very enterprising and indefatigable gentleman , a native of Spain , who was famous ...
... thou- fand fquare miles , and is about four thousand five hundred miles from England , and was discovered in the year 1493 , by Chriftopher Columbus , a very enterprising and indefatigable gentleman , a native of Spain , who was famous ...
الصفحة 34
... thoufand , free people of colour twelve hundred , and eight thousand flaves ; the harbour is very commodious for a thousand shipping ; and as the tide fcarce ebbs or flows , ships at all times float , load and unload , along- fide the ...
... thoufand , free people of colour twelve hundred , and eight thousand flaves ; the harbour is very commodious for a thousand shipping ; and as the tide fcarce ebbs or flows , ships at all times float , load and unload , along- fide the ...
الصفحة 38
... thoufand white people on the island . There are more than one hundred rivers in Jamaica , the moft confiderable of which are Mina and Cobre ; when it rains heavy those swell to an amazing height ; the 2d of October 1780 , when the town ...
... thoufand white people on the island . There are more than one hundred rivers in Jamaica , the moft confiderable of which are Mina and Cobre ; when it rains heavy those swell to an amazing height ; the 2d of October 1780 , when the town ...
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... thoufand varied forms : the confola- tion a good man feels at doing a generous action or returning a favour is great . When you do a charitable or generous action , conceal it from every person as private as poffible ; let it be done ...
... thoufand varied forms : the confola- tion a good man feels at doing a generous action or returning a favour is great . When you do a charitable or generous action , conceal it from every person as private as poffible ; let it be done ...
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