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 33
There are about forty towns and villages , amongst which none are worthy of note but Kingston , Saint Jago de la Vega , vulgarly called Spanish Town , Port Royal , and Montego Bay , the reft hardly deferve the name of villages ...
There are about forty towns and villages , amongst which none are worthy of note but Kingston , Saint Jago de la Vega , vulgarly called Spanish Town , Port Royal , and Montego Bay , the reft hardly deferve the name of villages ...
الصفحة 34
... alongfide the wharfs ; the church , barrack , and theatre , stand on a large airy plain , on that end of the town called the Parade , leading to Spanish Town , and Liquanea ; the church is a tolerable elegant building ; it is a pity ...
... alongfide the wharfs ; the church , barrack , and theatre , stand on a large airy plain , on that end of the town called the Parade , leading to Spanish Town , and Liquanea ; the church is a tolerable elegant building ; it is a pity ...
الصفحة 35
feveral inftances of people being devoured by sharks at that part of the town ; indeed it is very unfafe to bathe in any part of the sea in the West Indies . The houses , though fome are tolerable elegant , built of brick or wood ...
feveral inftances of people being devoured by sharks at that part of the town ; indeed it is very unfafe to bathe in any part of the sea in the West Indies . The houses , though fome are tolerable elegant , built of brick or wood ...
الصفحة 36
Every one of thofe grog fhop keepers keep a horfe and kitterine , that is , a one horfe chaife , and on fundays drive about the town and country , like ladies and gentlemen , fuperbly decorated in fineries , the fpoils of war ...
Every one of thofe grog fhop keepers keep a horfe and kitterine , that is , a one horfe chaife , and on fundays drive about the town and country , like ladies and gentlemen , fuperbly decorated in fineries , the fpoils of war ...
الصفحة 37
and where the affemblies are held , stands in the middle of the town , is an elegant building ; oppofite to which there is a pretty little square parade , railed round , where the guards are relieved every morning ; on the other fide of ...
and where the affemblies are held , stands in the middle of the town , is an elegant building ; oppofite to which there is a pretty little square parade , railed round , where the guards are relieved every morning ; on the other fide of ...
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