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 72
... means redress this grievance until the mortgage , with intereft , and all cofts , are difcharged . When a mortgagee wishes to get an eftate into his own poffeffion , he discharges difchages the old manager , and appoints fome indolent ...
... means redress this grievance until the mortgage , with intereft , and all cofts , are difcharged . When a mortgagee wishes to get an eftate into his own poffeffion , he discharges difchages the old manager , and appoints fome indolent ...
الصفحة 81
... major part by far are mean , low - lived , ignorant fellows . Sneaking Caution was an overfeer on a fine plantation in the parish of Clarendon , which which had 270 flaves upon it ; and though it IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 81.
... major part by far are mean , low - lived , ignorant fellows . Sneaking Caution was an overfeer on a fine plantation in the parish of Clarendon , which which had 270 flaves upon it ; and though it IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 81.
الصفحة 82
... means to injure them , leaft they should fup- plant him or get preferred ; but when he chanced to meet an infignificant puppy like himself , they agreed well together . As Dryden says , His hair and beard are of a diff'rent dye ; Lame ...
... means to injure them , leaft they should fup- plant him or get preferred ; but when he chanced to meet an infignificant puppy like himself , they agreed well together . As Dryden says , His hair and beard are of a diff'rent dye ; Lame ...
الصفحة 86
... mean- eft capacity , that the richest foil will be impo- verished more or lefs , according to the load of vegetables it produces ; for every plant extracts its peculiar nourishment from the earth ; the nurfe who fuckles more than one ...
... mean- eft capacity , that the richest foil will be impo- verished more or lefs , according to the load of vegetables it produces ; for every plant extracts its peculiar nourishment from the earth ; the nurfe who fuckles more than one ...
الصفحة 89
... means they feverally practice to deceive the attornies or pro- prietors ; fuch commonly are the topical fubjects of the planting herd . The life of an overfeer is by no means a life of ease or content ; though he may at times indulge ...
... means they feverally practice to deceive the attornies or pro- prietors ; fuch commonly are the topical fubjects of the planting herd . The life of an overfeer is by no means a life of ease or content ; though he may at times indulge ...
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