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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J. B. Moreton. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . MY DEAR FRIEND ! A SI understand you intend to go shortly to Jamaica , and I presume an entire stranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , I think it a ...
J. B. Moreton. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . MY DEAR FRIEND ! A SI understand you intend to go shortly to Jamaica , and I presume an entire stranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , I think it a ...
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... Though I am naturally fond of mirth and fociety , yet I often like retirement , and have often enjoyed the greatest rapture of mind when wrapped wrapped in dear delightful folitude , amidst the rocky grottos 40 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... Though I am naturally fond of mirth and fociety , yet I often like retirement , and have often enjoyed the greatest rapture of mind when wrapped wrapped in dear delightful folitude , amidst the rocky grottos 40 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 41
J. B. Moreton. wrapped in dear delightful folitude , amidst the rocky grottos of the mountains , I felt a pleafing fatisfaction , traverfing with a gun the lonely and unfrequented shades of the woods . These deep folitudes and awful ...
J. B. Moreton. wrapped in dear delightful folitude , amidst the rocky grottos of the mountains , I felt a pleafing fatisfaction , traverfing with a gun the lonely and unfrequented shades of the woods . These deep folitudes and awful ...
الصفحة 67
... Dear Mofes , this chance is moft pleafing to me , To fend the contents of my mind unto thee ; On board of the Neptune , a paffage I took , With keen cunning notions of having good - look . My flender adventure was prudently bought , And ...
... Dear Mofes , this chance is moft pleafing to me , To fend the contents of my mind unto thee ; On board of the Neptune , a paffage I took , With keen cunning notions of having good - look . My flender adventure was prudently bought , And ...
الصفحة 74
... Dear Sir , Spanish - Town , 20th June 1781 . I was favoured with yours of the 6th of April , and offerse the contents . The prefent ferves to cover bill of lading for fixty hogfheads of Muf- covado fugar from your Clarendon - hall ...
... Dear Sir , Spanish - Town , 20th June 1781 . I was favoured with yours of the 6th of April , and offerse the contents . The prefent ferves to cover bill of lading for fixty hogfheads of Muf- covado fugar from your Clarendon - hall ...
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