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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الصفحة 58
Any man with four or five chousand pounds may get possesfion of a plantation , llaves , & c . by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual inftalments , and giving a mortgage by way of fe . curity on the estate ; and after ...
Any man with four or five chousand pounds may get possesfion of a plantation , llaves , & c . by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual inftalments , and giving a mortgage by way of fe . curity on the estate ; and after ...
الصفحة 59
Guinea grass will grow on the most fandy deserts or mountains ; the method of planting it is as follows : - The ground being prepared by clear . ing it of shrubbery and grass against the first of May , and holed at every three or four ...
Guinea grass will grow on the most fandy deserts or mountains ; the method of planting it is as follows : - The ground being prepared by clear . ing it of shrubbery and grass against the first of May , and holed at every three or four ...
الصفحة 63
Mr. Lewis was clerk to the late Mr. Hebert ( a very capital merchant ) , and having taken a propensity to the law , after serving him four or five years very faithfully , he was sent at the expence of Mr. Hebert to the Temple , where he ...
Mr. Lewis was clerk to the late Mr. Hebert ( a very capital merchant ) , and having taken a propensity to the law , after serving him four or five years very faithfully , he was sent at the expence of Mr. Hebert to the Temple , where he ...
الصفحة 64
... they all in general live elegantly ; it is not thought strange for a peasant's son from Glasgow , or Aberdeen , in the space of four or five years , to commence merchant , and in a few years afterwards to make a pretty independence ...
... they all in general live elegantly ; it is not thought strange for a peasant's son from Glasgow , or Aberdeen , in the space of four or five years , to commence merchant , and in a few years afterwards to make a pretty independence ...
الصفحة 70
... after having taken the chiefest and choicest of the effects at the valuation , and purchases it , and then makes no remittance at all for four or five years , fo that the crops , or interest of the money , pays for the estate ; I do ...
... after having taken the chiefest and choicest of the effects at the valuation , and purchases it , and then makes no remittance at all for four or five years , fo that the crops , or interest of the money , pays for the estate ; I do ...
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