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 34
1 Kingston is about a mile long and the same in breadth , containing about two thousand houses , besides negro huts ... there is also another public building , called Ranelagh House , in which ladies and gentlemen hold publick balls and ...
1 Kingston is about a mile long and the same in breadth , containing about two thousand houses , besides negro huts ... there is also another public building , called Ranelagh House , in which ladies and gentlemen hold publick balls and ...
الصفحة 35
The houses , though some are tolerable elegant , built of brick or wood , are very irregular ; the piazza's are in the ... as the one Mark Howard kept , now called the South Sea House ; there are also an incredible number of petty ones ...
The houses , though some are tolerable elegant , built of brick or wood , are very irregular ; the piazza's are in the ... as the one Mark Howard kept , now called the South Sea House ; there are also an incredible number of petty ones ...
الصفحة 36
Spanish Town , before - mentioned , is the metropolis , and contains about nine hundred houses , and three thousand ... The king's house , in which the governor resides , and and where the assemblies are held , stands in the 36 MANNERS ...
Spanish Town , before - mentioned , is the metropolis , and contains about nine hundred houses , and three thousand ... The king's house , in which the governor resides , and and where the assemblies are held , stands in the 36 MANNERS ...
الصفحة 37
... opposite the king's house , there is a row of public buildings , where the supreme courts of judicature are held quarterly , and where the fecretary's office , collectors office , marshal's office , and all other offices of record ...
... opposite the king's house , there is a row of public buildings , where the supreme courts of judicature are held quarterly , and where the fecretary's office , collectors office , marshal's office , and all other offices of record ...
الصفحة 39
The 17th of June , 1692 , Port - Royal was entirely swallowed up ; two thousand lives were lost , and ships 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 swallowed up ; two thousand lives were lost , and ships 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 ...
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