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 35
The houses , though fome are tolerable elegant , built of brick or wood , are very irregular ; the piazza's are in the fame manner , so that a franger or drunken man , of a dark night , unless he walks in the middle of the street ...
The houses , though fome are tolerable elegant , built of brick or wood , are very irregular ; the piazza's are in the fame manner , so that a franger or drunken man , of a dark night , unless he walks in the middle of the street ...
الصفحة 37
... oppofite the king's house , there is a row of public buildings , where the fupreme courts of judicature are held quarterly , and where the fecretary's office , collectors office , marshal's of fice , and all other offices of record ...
... oppofite the king's house , there is a row of public buildings , where the fupreme courts of judicature are held quarterly , and where the fecretary's office , collectors office , marshal's of fice , and all other offices of record ...
الصفحة 39
... tear up the largest trees by the roots , level the strongest stores and houses to the ground , and leave not only towns and plantations , but whole parishes waste , and hurry unprepared into eternity hundreds of our unhappy brethren ...
... tear up the largest trees by the roots , level the strongest stores and houses to the ground , and leave not only towns and plantations , but whole parishes waste , and hurry unprepared into eternity hundreds of our unhappy brethren ...
الصفحة 48
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 ...
الصفحة 50
... whole hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the diftill - house ; but the generality of managers think they have got a proper knowledge knowledge of all thefe , without ever handling a line 50 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... whole hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the diftill - house ; but the generality of managers think they have got a proper knowledge knowledge of all thefe , without ever handling a line 50 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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