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 59
... follows : -The ground being prepared by clear- ing it of fhrubbery and grafs against the first of May , and holed at every three or four feet diftance , as soon as the feasons set in the grass is taken and planted , fix or feven blades ...
... follows : -The ground being prepared by clear- ing it of fhrubbery and grafs against the first of May , and holed at every three or four feet diftance , as soon as the feasons set in the grass is taken and planted , fix or feven blades ...
الصفحة 67
... follows : Dear Mofes , this chance is moft pleafing to me , To fend the contents of my mind unto thee ; On board of the Neptune , a paffage I took , With keen cunning notions of having good - look . My flender adventure was prudently ...
... follows : Dear Mofes , this chance is moft pleafing to me , To fend the contents of my mind unto thee ; On board of the Neptune , a paffage I took , With keen cunning notions of having good - look . My flender adventure was prudently ...
الصفحة 74
... follow- ing is the nature of a letter from a needy attorney to the proprietor in London . Dear Sir , Spanish - Town , 20th June 1781 . I was favoured with yours of the 6th of April , and obferve the contents . The prefent ferves to ...
... follow- ing is the nature of a letter from a needy attorney to the proprietor in London . Dear Sir , Spanish - Town , 20th June 1781 . I was favoured with yours of the 6th of April , and obferve the contents . The prefent ferves to ...
الصفحة 102
... follow the precepts of his caliloo , or pedling little minded brethren , when they meet in affembly , chattering of canes and corn pieces , of grafs penns and cattle , or of beef and butter , rotten cheese , herrings , & c . & c . fuch ...
... follow the precepts of his caliloo , or pedling little minded brethren , when they meet in affembly , chattering of canes and corn pieces , of grafs penns and cattle , or of beef and butter , rotten cheese , herrings , & c . & c . fuch ...
الصفحة 103
... follows : You do fwear , that you will , according to the best of your fkill , confcience , and judgment , do equal right , law and juftice , to his Majefty and all his fubjects and people , both rich and poor , without favour or ...
... follows : You do fwear , that you will , according to the best of your fkill , confcience , and judgment , do equal right , law and juftice , to his Majefty and all his fubjects and people , both rich and poor , without favour or ...
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