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 36
Spanish Town , before - mentioned , is the metropolis , and contains about nine hundred houses , and three thousand inhabitants of all denominations , and is about thirteen miles from Kingson ; the road is quite level , and the best in ...
Spanish Town , before - mentioned , is the metropolis , and contains about nine hundred houses , and three thousand inhabitants of all denominations , and is about thirteen miles from Kingson ; the road is quite level , and the best in ...
الصفحة 38
The number of sugar plantations are computed to be one thousand fixty eight , and to make upon an averageone hundred and fix thousand of Muscovado sugar yearly , and fifty three thousand puncheons of rum ; there are about cwo thousand ...
The number of sugar plantations are computed to be one thousand fixty eight , and to make upon an averageone hundred and fix thousand of Muscovado sugar yearly , and fifty three thousand puncheons of rum ; there are about cwo thousand ...
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 same 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 same day a plantation was removed more than a mile ...
الصفحة 62
The council is composed of ten men , fome of whom are , though possessed of eltates , thousands worse than nothing ; yet they cannot be arrested ; their bodies are sacred ; there are several other great gentlemen of this description in ...
The council is composed of ten men , fome of whom are , though possessed of eltates , thousands worse than nothing ; yet they cannot be arrested ; their bodies are sacred ; there are several other great gentlemen of this description in ...
الصفحة 63
... may get from prison ; in every parish there is a ' deputy provost marshal , each of whom make pretty livings : I suppose the place of the marshal of Kingstown is worth from two to three thousand pounds yearly .
... may get from prison ; in every parish there is a ' deputy provost marshal , each of whom make pretty livings : I suppose the place of the marshal of Kingstown is worth from two to three thousand pounds yearly .
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