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 Edition |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 6-10 من 30
الصفحة 39
The 17th of June , 1692 , Port - Royal was entirely fwallowed up ; two thousand lives were loft , and fhips now fail over the old town , and anchor amongst the ruins of the houses ; the fame day a plantation was removed more than a mile ...
The 17th of June , 1692 , Port - Royal was entirely fwallowed up ; two thousand lives were loft , and fhips now fail over the old town , and anchor amongst the ruins of the houses ; the fame day a plantation was removed more than a mile ...
الصفحة 40
The beautiful palmeto and the cabbage - tree , also the soap - tree , the berries whereof have the fame effect as foap in washing . The mangrove , which grows in marshy places close to the fea , upon the roots of which oyfters of a ...
The beautiful palmeto and the cabbage - tree , also the soap - tree , the berries whereof have the fame effect as foap in washing . The mangrove , which grows in marshy places close to the fea , upon the roots of which oyfters of a ...
الصفحة 44
The dung being spread in the holes , the canes are laid flat upon the fame , two in a row , and covered lightly with part of the bank . If feasonable rains happen , they will fprout up in a few days from every joint , fomething like ...
The dung being spread in the holes , the canes are laid flat upon the fame , two in a row , and covered lightly with part of the bank . If feasonable rains happen , they will fprout up in a few days from every joint , fomething like ...
الصفحة 46
... neceffaries are not prepared in time : there are many preparations to be made for crop ; the coppers and ftills may want repairing or fetting ; the mill and gutters , pumps and vats , or cifterns , may be in the fame predicament .
... neceffaries are not prepared in time : there are many preparations to be made for crop ; the coppers and ftills may want repairing or fetting ; the mill and gutters , pumps and vats , or cifterns , may be in the fame predicament .
الصفحة 64
The markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week , and the fame fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards for lefs than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
The markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week , and the fame fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards for lefs than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
ما يقوله الناس - كتابة مراجعة
لم نعثر على أي مراجعات في الأماكن المعتادة.
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
affected alfo appear attend attorney become better blood book-keepers called canes carry cattle cent commonly confidered corn Creole cure dear drink eftate eight fame feet feveral fhall fhould field five flaves fmall follow fome fometimes fond foon four frequently friends fuch fugar gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf holes houſe human hundred ignorant Indies Jamaica keep kind known ladies leaft liquor live mafter manager manner means merchants mind Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature neceffary negroes never night obferve obliged once overfeers pain particularly perfon plantation planter planting poffible poor taken temper themſelves thing thofe thoſe thouſand till tion town turn wenches whole wine women woods young yourſelf
معلومات المراجع
| العنوان | 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 Edition Eighteenth century 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 Edition, J. B. Moreton |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | جامعة أوكسفورد |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 8 أيار (مايو) 2009 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
| تصدير الاقتباس | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |