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 35
... houses , though fome are tolerable elegant , built of brick or wood , are very irregular ; the piazza's are in the ... houses nor paf- fengers , nor can he , but with much difficulty , pre- ferve his eye - fight . There are fome good ...
... houses , though fome are tolerable elegant , built of brick or wood , are very irregular ; the piazza's are in the ... houses nor paf- fengers , nor can he , but with much difficulty , pre- ferve his eye - fight . There are fome good ...
الصفحة 37
... 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 ; there are other commodities the product of Jamaica , fuch as coffee ...
... 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 ; there are other commodities the product of Jamaica , fuch as coffee ...
الصفحة 39
... houses ; the fame day a plantation was re- moved more than a mile from its former fituation . In confequence of fuch juft and infcrutable judg- ments of the creator , and judge of heaven and earth , for their manifold fins and ...
... houses ; the fame day a plantation was re- moved more than a mile from its former fituation . In confequence of fuch juft and infcrutable judg- ments of the creator , and judge of heaven and earth , for their manifold fins and ...
الصفحة 47
... house , beneath the centre of which roof three iron rollers are fixed upright and quite close together ; each roller is about two feet in diameter , and three feet and a half in length , the rhind or shell about one inch and a quarter ...
... house , beneath the centre of which roof three iron rollers are fixed upright and quite close together ; each roller is about two feet in diameter , and three feet and a half in length , the rhind or shell about one inch and a quarter ...
الصفحة 48
... house , where they are piled , as being the only fuel for boiling the fugar ; a prudent manager will always endeavour to keep his trafh- houfes full , fo that at the beginning of crop he will have plenty of feasoned trash , and will not ...
... house , where they are piled , as being the only fuel for boiling the fugar ; a prudent manager will always endeavour to keep his trafh- houfes full , fo that at the beginning of crop he will have plenty of feasoned trash , and will not ...
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