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 33
... Jamaica was taken from the Spaniards under the command of admiral Penn , in 1655. This ifland is compofed of huge and lofty rocky mountains , hills , valleys and plains , and is in three divifions , viz Middlefex , Surry , and Cornwall ...
... Jamaica was taken from the Spaniards under the command of admiral Penn , in 1655. This ifland is compofed of huge and lofty rocky mountains , hills , valleys and plains , and is in three divifions , viz Middlefex , Surry , and Cornwall ...
الصفحة 37
... winds blow with any violence . The chief produce for ex- portation is fugar and rum ; there are other commodities the product of Jamaica , fuch as coffee : coffee , cotton , cocoa , pimento , ginger , OF THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS 37.
... winds blow with any violence . The chief produce for ex- portation is fugar and rum ; there are other commodities the product of Jamaica , fuch as coffee : coffee , cotton , cocoa , pimento , ginger , OF THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS 37.
الصفحة 38
... Jamaica , the most confiderable of which are Mina and Cobre ; when it rains heavy thofe fwell to an amazing height ; the 2d of October 1780 , when the town of Savana - la - Mar , and the whole county of Cornwall , were almost destroyed ...
... Jamaica , the most confiderable of which are Mina and Cobre ; when it rains heavy thofe fwell to an amazing height ; the 2d of October 1780 , when the town of Savana - la - Mar , and the whole county of Cornwall , were almost destroyed ...
الصفحة 39
... Jamaica , but all over the Weft Indies ; but when hurricanes are attended with earthquakes , the vallies fhake , and the mountains nod . I myself once beheld them trembling all round me , and their rocky ftupen- dous tops precipitating ...
... Jamaica , but all over the Weft Indies ; but when hurricanes are attended with earthquakes , the vallies fhake , and the mountains nod . I myself once beheld them trembling all round me , and their rocky ftupen- dous tops precipitating ...
الصفحة 42
... Jamaica , as with any they got in Europe , particularly with the pork , which is remarkable delicate in flavour , and fuperior to any which can be procured elsewhere . The re- gulated prices of fresh provifions are as follows : Beef 7 d ...
... Jamaica , as with any they got in Europe , particularly with the pork , which is remarkable delicate in flavour , and fuperior to any which can be procured elsewhere . The re- gulated prices of fresh provifions are as follows : Beef 7 d ...
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