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 38
... almost destroyed by an hurricane and heavy rains , Mina rose about thirty feet high in fome places ; this I was convinced of after the flood abated , by observing part of a negro hut and other wreck , stuck fast in the branches of a ...
... almost destroyed by an hurricane and heavy rains , Mina rose about thirty feet high in fome places ; this I was convinced of after the flood abated , by observing part of a negro hut and other wreck , stuck fast in the branches of a ...
الصفحة 40
... almost all uses ; fuch as locust , mastic , bull - tree , dog- wood , brasilitto , mahogany and cedars , as huge and lofty as the cedars of Lebanon ; also lignum- vitæ , which yields that valuable medicine , gum- guiacum ; the ceiba ...
... almost all uses ; fuch as locust , mastic , bull - tree , dog- wood , brasilitto , mahogany and cedars , as huge and lofty as the cedars of Lebanon ; also lignum- vitæ , which yields that valuable medicine , gum- guiacum ; the ceiba ...
الصفحة 62
... almost as bad . Governor Campbell surprisingly gained the love and affection of the people ; he put the island in a proper state of defence , and is a brave and judicious general . The council is composed of ten men , some of whom are ...
... almost as bad . Governor Campbell surprisingly gained the love and affection of the people ; he put the island in a proper state of defence , and is a brave and judicious general . The council is composed of ten men , some of whom are ...
الصفحة 65
... almost all the coin , so that every unmilled piece of gold is weighed and wrapped in paper , with the weight and value endorsed ; -hear what Jeremiah fays of them : " For every one , from the least even unto the " greatest , is given to ...
... almost all the coin , so that every unmilled piece of gold is weighed and wrapped in paper , with the weight and value endorsed ; -hear what Jeremiah fays of them : " For every one , from the least even unto the " greatest , is given to ...
الصفحة 98
... one time or another he will be a mer- chant ; well knowing that almost every West - In- dia merchant was nothing better originally than a clerk , 1 1 a clerk , therefore they wear fine waistcoats and florentine 98 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... one time or another he will be a mer- chant ; well knowing that almost every West - In- dia merchant was nothing better originally than a clerk , 1 1 a clerk , therefore they wear fine waistcoats and florentine 98 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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