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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... forty pounds fterling per pipe . The capital is Fonchial , and con- tains about five hundred houfes ; the natives . are Portuguese , and drefs in the fame uniform of their custom - houfe officers ; their charac- teristic is , that they ...
... forty pounds fterling per pipe . The capital is Fonchial , and con- tains about five hundred houfes ; the natives . are Portuguese , and drefs in the fame uniform of their custom - houfe officers ; their charac- teristic is , that they ...
الصفحة 20
... forty pounds , previous to his departure , for Styx ; and the rafcal who had my coffin and grave prepared , was for feveral months afterwards laughed at by the neighbouring cowfkin heroes . When fick and languid on my bed I lay , In ...
... forty pounds , previous to his departure , for Styx ; and the rafcal who had my coffin and grave prepared , was for feveral months afterwards laughed at by the neighbouring cowfkin heroes . When fick and languid on my bed I lay , In ...
الصفحة 33
... forty towns and villages , amongst which none are worthy of note but Kingston , Saint Jago de la Vega , vulgarly called Spanish Town , Port Royal , and Montego Bay , the reft hardly deferve the name of villages , only fmall places of ...
... forty towns and villages , amongst which none are worthy of note but Kingston , Saint Jago de la Vega , vulgarly called Spanish Town , Port Royal , and Montego Bay , the reft hardly deferve the name of villages , only fmall places of ...
الصفحة 44
... 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 jobbing- gangs , is fix or feven pounds . If the land is newly broke ...
... 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 jobbing- gangs , is fix or feven pounds . If the land is newly broke ...
الصفحة 53
... forty - fix per cent . of water will answer very well ; the mixture always fhould be no more than luke warm when fet ; either of those mixtures would ferment , and be fit to distill in feven or eight days . As foon as the firft charge ...
... forty - fix per cent . of water will answer very well ; the mixture always fhould be no more than luke warm when fet ; either of those mixtures would ferment , and be fit to distill in feven or eight days . As foon as the firft charge ...
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