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 EditionJ. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 - 192 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 33
... Town , Port Royal , and Montego Bay , the reft hardly deferve the name of villages , only fmall places of fhipping around the island . Kingston Kingston is about a mile long and the fame in OF THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 33.
... Town , Port Royal , and Montego Bay , the reft hardly deferve the name of villages , only fmall places of fhipping around the island . Kingston Kingston is about a mile long and the fame in OF THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 33.
الصفحة 35
... buckles , clothes , & c . and betrayed for fmall premiums by their hofts ; and in war time trapaned on board men of war , or fold , I may fay , to maf- ters ters of merchant men , who pay £ 4 , OF THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 35.
... buckles , clothes , & c . and betrayed for fmall premiums by their hofts ; and in war time trapaned on board men of war , or fold , I may fay , to maf- ters ters of merchant men , who pay £ 4 , OF THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 35.
الصفحة 36
... , and is about thirteen miles from Kingflon ; the road is quite level , and the beft in the island . The king's houfe , in which the governor refides , and . W and where the affemblies are held , ftands in the 36 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... , and is about thirteen miles from Kingflon ; the road is quite level , and the beft in the island . The king's houfe , in which the governor refides , and . W and where the affemblies are held , ftands in the 36 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 37
... winds blow with any violence . The chief produce for ex- portation is fugar and rum ; there are other commodities the product of Jamaica , fuch as coffee , coffee , cotton , cocoa , pimento , ginger , OF THE WEST WEST 37 INDIA ISLANDS .
... winds blow with any violence . The chief produce for ex- portation is fugar and rum ; there are other commodities the product of Jamaica , fuch as coffee , coffee , cotton , cocoa , pimento , ginger , OF THE WEST WEST 37 INDIA ISLANDS .
الصفحة 38
... island . There are more than one hundred rivers in Jamaica , the moft confiderable of which are Mina and Cobre ; when it rains heavy those swell to an amazing height ; the 2d of October 1780 , when the town of Savana - la - Mar , and ...
... island . There are more than one hundred rivers in Jamaica , the moft confiderable of which are Mina and Cobre ; when it rains heavy those swell to an amazing height ; the 2d of October 1780 , when the town of Savana - la - Mar , and ...
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