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 34
... also another public building , called Ranelagh House , in which ladies and gentlemen hold publick balls and assemblies ; there are also two free mason lodges , to wit , Saint Andrew's and Saint Patrick's ; both Scotch and Irish keep up ...
... also another public building , called Ranelagh House , in which ladies and gentlemen hold publick balls and assemblies ; there are also two free mason lodges , to wit , Saint Andrew's and Saint Patrick's ; both Scotch and Irish keep up ...
الصفحة 35
... also an incredible number of petty ones , called grog shops , occupied by people of the vilest characters , ( rogues and whores ) who , like syrens , attract and delude poor thoughtless failors ; in those dens of infamy they riot away ...
... also an incredible number of petty ones , called grog shops , occupied by people of the vilest characters , ( rogues and whores ) who , like syrens , attract and delude poor thoughtless failors ; in those dens of infamy they riot away ...
الصفحة 40
... also lignum- vitæ , which yields that valuable medicine , gum- guiacum ; the ceiba , or filk cotton - tree , out of which canoes are made , some so large , that an hundred men may fail in them . The beautiful palmeto and the cabbage ...
... also lignum- vitæ , which yields that valuable medicine , gum- guiacum ; the ceiba , or filk cotton - tree , out of which canoes are made , some so large , that an hundred men may fail in them . The beautiful palmeto and the cabbage ...
الصفحة 47
... also ; this is what is called a cattle mill ; wind and water mills are all differently con- structed . The canes being cut , and all the trash lopped off , are carried in wanes , or if the estate is mountainous , on mules backs , to the ...
... also ; this is what is called a cattle mill ; wind and water mills are all differently con- structed . The canes being cut , and all the trash lopped off , are carried in wanes , or if the estate is mountainous , on mules backs , to the ...
الصفحة 48
... is properly skimmed and clarified , it is thrown with ladles into the second copper , to which fire is also put , and then shifted from that to to the third copper , and the grand copper filled 48 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... is properly skimmed and clarified , it is thrown with ladles into the second copper , to which fire is also put , and then shifted from that to to the third copper , and the grand copper filled 48 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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