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 71
... should he be deceived by clean intervals , pleafant walks , or artificial work of any kind ; he should walk across and through the cane pieces all over the plantation , and fee that they were properly weeded , moulded , hoed and ...
... should he be deceived by clean intervals , pleafant walks , or artificial work of any kind ; he should walk across and through the cane pieces all over the plantation , and fee that they were properly weeded , moulded , hoed and ...
الصفحة 78
... should fay , it would render a gentleman of fortune odious in the community to take half a dozen ladies of eafy virtue into keeping at once ; in those countries frigid lovers trifle away half their time in ftiff formalities and ...
... should fay , it would render a gentleman of fortune odious in the community to take half a dozen ladies of eafy virtue into keeping at once ; in those countries frigid lovers trifle away half their time in ftiff formalities and ...
الصفحة 79
J. B. Moreton. I should have observed to you before , that he ' who is chief in the fuperintendency of a planta- tion in Jamaica , is called an Overfeer ; and in the Windward Islands , a Manager ; and the Overfeer's Deputies are called ...
J. B. Moreton. I should have observed to you before , that he ' who is chief in the fuperintendency of a planta- tion in Jamaica , is called an Overfeer ; and in the Windward Islands , a Manager ; and the Overfeer's Deputies are called ...
الصفحة 80
... should not only be a quack in phyfic , but should have fome fome knowledge of every trade which concerns a plantation , 80 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... should not only be a quack in phyfic , but should have fome fome knowledge of every trade which concerns a plantation , 80 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 82
... 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 of one leg , diftorted in one eye ...
... 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 of one leg , diftorted in one eye ...
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