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
Jamaica is the richest of all the British WestIndia islands , and is situated between 17 and 189 north latitude , and between 75 ° and 79 ° west longitude ; it is about one hundred and fifty miles long , and fixty broad , containing ...
Jamaica is the richest of all the British WestIndia islands , and is situated between 17 and 189 north latitude , and between 75 ° and 79 ° west longitude ; it is about one hundred and fifty miles long , and fixty broad , containing ...
الصفحة 37
The chief produce for exportation is sugar and rum ; there are other commodities the product of Jamaica , such as 1 1 ! coffee , cotton , cocoa , pimento. coffee , mountains OF THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 37.
The chief produce for exportation is sugar and rum ; there are other commodities the product of Jamaica , such as 1 1 ! coffee , cotton , cocoa , pimento. coffee , mountains OF THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 37.
الصفحة 38
There are more than one hundred rivers in Jamaica , the most considerable of which are Mina and Cobre ; when it rains heavy those swell to an amazing height ; the ad of October 1780 , when the town of Savana - la - Mar , and the whole ...
There are more than one hundred rivers in Jamaica , the most considerable of which are Mina and Cobre ; when it rains heavy those swell to an amazing height ; the ad of October 1780 , when the town of Savana - la - Mar , and the whole ...
الصفحة 39
These awful and tremendous dispensations of Providence frequently happen , not only in Jamaica , but all over the Weft Indies ; but when hurricanes are attended with earthquakes , the vallies shake , and the mountains nod .
These awful and tremendous dispensations of Providence frequently happen , not only in Jamaica , but all over the Weft Indies ; but when hurricanes are attended with earthquakes , the vallies shake , and the mountains nod .
الصفحة 42
Travellers have been as well pleased with the beef , mutton , pork , and poultry of Jamaica , as with any they got in Europe , particularly with the pork , which is remarkable delicate in favour , and superior to any which can be ...
Travellers have been as well pleased with the beef , mutton , pork , and poultry of Jamaica , as with any they got in Europe , particularly with the pork , which is remarkable delicate in favour , and superior to any which can be ...
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| العنوان | 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 Eighteenth century 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, J. B. Moreton |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | جامعة أوكسفورد |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 8 أيار (مايو) 2009 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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