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 12
As you probably , may call at Madiera , I will give you an idea of that small Island by an extract from my journal . As soon as we came to anchor oppofite Madeira , a small African ifland , fituated in about 32o , N. latitude and 16o ...
As you probably , may call at Madiera , I will give you an idea of that small Island by an extract from my journal . As soon as we came to anchor oppofite Madeira , a small African ifland , fituated in about 32o , N. latitude and 16o ...
الصفحة 33
... and other provifions ; the small hills , valleys and plains , are calculated by nature for fugar plantations , pens and farms . There are about forty towns and villages , amongst which none are worthy of note but Kingston , Saint ...
... and other provifions ; the small hills , valleys and plains , are calculated by nature for fugar plantations , pens and farms . There are about forty towns and villages , amongst which none are worthy of note but Kingston , Saint ...
الصفحة 36
Sunday is the greatest market day ; the negroes from all parts of the country flock to town , hundreds of them in a gang , carrying with them the product of their grounds ; for every negro cultivates a small lot of land for his own use ...
Sunday is the greatest market day ; the negroes from all parts of the country flock to town , hundreds of them in a gang , carrying with them the product of their grounds ; for every negro cultivates a small lot of land for his own use ...
الصفحة 73
An attorney in Jamaica charges five per cent . commiffion on the net proceeds of the fhipments from every plantation which he has the care of ; and this , though very high , is but a small part of an attorney's emoluments .
An attorney in Jamaica charges five per cent . commiffion on the net proceeds of the fhipments from every plantation which he has the care of ; and this , though very high , is but a small part of an attorney's emoluments .
الصفحة 95
Turkies are the most difficult kind to raise ; at first they require great care and attention , ' till they get ftrong and grow to perchers ; a small grain of bird - pepper , that grows in the country , given to each as foon as out of ...
Turkies are the most difficult kind to raise ; at first they require great care and attention , ' till they get ftrong and grow to perchers ; a small grain of bird - pepper , that grows in the country , given to each as foon as out of ...
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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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