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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... five hundred miles from England , and was difcovered in the year 1493 , by Chriftopher Columbus , a very enterprifing and indefatigable gentleman , a native of Spain , who was famous for many difcoveries , and ill rewarded for all his ...
... five hundred miles from England , and was difcovered in the year 1493 , by Chriftopher Columbus , a very enterprifing and indefatigable gentleman , a native of Spain , who was famous for many difcoveries , and ill rewarded for all his ...
الصفحة 37
... five miles dif- tant from Kingston , and contains about fix hundred houses ; the harbour is large and extend- ed , yet it is hazardous when the north winds blow with any violence . The chief produce for ex- portation is fugar and rum ...
... five miles dif- tant from Kingston , and contains about fix hundred houses ; the harbour is large and extend- ed , yet it is hazardous when the north winds blow with any violence . The chief produce for ex- portation is fugar and rum ...
الصفحة 38
... five thoufand white people on the island . There are more than one hundred rivers in Jamaica , the most confiderable of which are Mina and Cobre ; when it rains heavy thofe fwell to an amazing height ; the 2d of October 1780 , when the ...
... five thoufand white people on the island . There are more than one hundred rivers in Jamaica , the most confiderable of which are Mina and Cobre ; when it rains heavy thofe fwell to an amazing height ; the 2d of October 1780 , when the ...
الصفحة 48
... five cop- pers of different fizes fet clofe together , about eighteen inches from the floor ; the largest of which is called the grand copper , and the first that is filled with liquor ; as foon as it is full , and tempered with a small ...
... five cop- pers of different fizes fet clofe together , about eighteen inches from the floor ; the largest of which is called the grand copper , and the first that is filled with liquor ; as foon as it is full , and tempered with a small ...
الصفحة 49
... five years : He may attempt it , but how infignificant and auk- ward muft a man appear , who attempts or un- dertakes a bufinefs he knows nothing about ; he - may may think , and fay , " My overfeers and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 49.
... five years : He may attempt it , but how infignificant and auk- ward muft a man appear , who attempts or un- dertakes a bufinefs he knows nothing about ; he - may may think , and fay , " My overfeers and IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 49.
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