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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الصفحة 43
... has any spirit of emulation , enjoys a pleasure in seeing cane holes properly lined and dug . An acre contains about 3555 holes , three D 2 fee feet and a half fquare , and if the ground IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 43.
... has any spirit of emulation , enjoys a pleasure in seeing cane holes properly lined and dug . An acre contains about 3555 holes , three D 2 fee feet and a half fquare , and if the ground IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 43.
الصفحة 87
... Seeing his plantation in fuch a ruined condition , he with much compofure of mind very tamely addreffed the overfeer , whofe name was Fungee , thus : " Mr. Fungee , I find you are very induftri- ous ; you certainly have uncommon ...
... Seeing his plantation in fuch a ruined condition , he with much compofure of mind very tamely addreffed the overfeer , whofe name was Fungee , thus : " Mr. Fungee , I find you are very induftri- ous ; you certainly have uncommon ...
الصفحة 97
... see if any are broken or stole ; he must be here and there and every where ; in- deed the different parts of his duty are as various and progreffive as the days in the year . He commonly gives his first year's falary for a horse ; for ...
... see if any are broken or stole ; he must be here and there and every where ; in- deed the different parts of his duty are as various and progreffive as the days in the year . He commonly gives his first year's falary for a horse ; for ...
الصفحة 151
... See her arm , how gracefully it fwings ! At her prefence all Nature feems gay ; To greet her the nightingale fings ! My fungee I now fhall get boil'd , No more I'll repine at my lot ; For fhe who my forrows beguil'd Is return'd with ...
... See her arm , how gracefully it fwings ! At her prefence all Nature feems gay ; To greet her the nightingale fings ! My fungee I now fhall get boil'd , No more I'll repine at my lot ; For fhe who my forrows beguil'd Is return'd with ...
الصفحة 189
... see " If thou can'ft bring them friendly to agree . " Be not fond of borrowing , or of lending , or of becoming fecurity for another , least you not only lose the loan and friend , but get yourself into a fnare . " Be not thou one of ...
... see " If thou can'ft bring them friendly to agree . " Be not fond of borrowing , or of lending , or of becoming fecurity for another , least you not only lose the loan and friend , but get yourself into a fnare . " Be not thou one of ...
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