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 |
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... containing about fix thoufand fquare miles , and is about four thousand five hundred miles from England , and was discovered in the year 1493 , by Chriftopher Columbus , a very enterprising and indefatigable gentleman , a native of ...
... containing about fix thoufand fquare miles , and is about four thousand five hundred miles from England , and was discovered in the year 1493 , by Chriftopher Columbus , a very enterprising and indefatigable gentleman , a native of ...
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Montego Bay , next to Kingston for trade , is about one hundred and twenty five miles diftant from Kingston , and contains about fix hundred houfes ; the harbour is large and extended , yet it is hazardous when the north winds blow with ...
Montego Bay , next to Kingston for trade , is about one hundred and twenty five miles diftant from Kingston , and contains about fix hundred houfes ; the harbour is large and extended , yet it is hazardous when the north winds blow with ...
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... there are about two thousand and twenty pens or farms , and other fettlements , two hundred fifty nine thousand flaves , eighty thousand one hundred cattle , and twenty five thousand white people on the island .
... there are about two thousand and twenty pens or farms , and other fettlements , two hundred fifty nine thousand flaves , eighty thousand one hundred cattle , and twenty five thousand white people on the island .
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In the boiling - house there are four or five coppers of different fizes fet close together , about eighteen inches from the floor ; the largest of which is called the grand copper , and the first that is filled with liquor ; as foon as ...
In the boiling - house there are four or five coppers of different fizes fet close together , about eighteen inches from the floor ; the largest of which is called the grand copper , and the first that is filled with liquor ; as foon as ...
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c . are quite fimple ; that any man may get knowledge of thefe , without expofing his conftitution to the menial , toilfome , and painful drudgeries of an overfeer's life , for three , four , or five years : He may attempt it , -but how ...
c . are quite fimple ; that any man may get knowledge of thefe , without expofing his conftitution to the menial , toilfome , and painful drudgeries of an overfeer's life , for three , four , or five years : He may attempt it , -but how ...
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