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 60
forty colts , forty oxen , and one hundred sheep at least to dispose of , which would amount to more than 2000l . and would well reward the induftrious grazier . There are fome fine penns in the parish of St. Ann's , where many of the ...
forty colts , forty oxen , and one hundred sheep at least to dispose of , which would amount to more than 2000l . and would well reward the induftrious grazier . There are fome fine penns in the parish of St. Ann's , where many of the ...
الصفحة 61
... by enforcing martial law in 1779 and 1780 ; his proclamation of a " glorious " expedition intended against the Spanish main , to be headed in perfon by himself , and thereby decoying about fifteen hundred overfeers , clerks ...
... by enforcing martial law in 1779 and 1780 ; his proclamation of a " glorious " expedition intended against the Spanish main , to be headed in perfon by himself , and thereby decoying about fifteen hundred overfeers , clerks ...
الصفحة 62
fellow creatures , friends and acquantance , daily devoured by the carion crows ; fo that out of fifteen hundred volunteers , only eighteen or twenty returned to tell the doleful tale ; the troops fared almost as bad .
fellow creatures , friends and acquantance , daily devoured by the carion crows ; fo that out of fifteen hundred volunteers , only eighteen or twenty returned to tell the doleful tale ; the troops fared almost as bad .
الصفحة 64
The markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week , and the fame fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards for lefs than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
The markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week , and the fame fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards for lefs than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 67
... at least , at five hundred per cent . The firft of December , I think , was the day , That I fet off from Charlestown for Cape Françoife , In company with monfieurs Quaver and Quiver , ( Two men of fortune , most noble and clever ) ...
... at least , at five hundred per cent . The firft of December , I think , was the day , That I fet off from Charlestown for Cape Françoife , In company with monfieurs Quaver and Quiver , ( Two men of fortune , most noble and clever ) ...
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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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