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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Kingston is about a mile long and the same in breadth , containing about two thousand houses , besides negro huts ; the number of white inhabitants are about three thousand , free people of colour twelve hundred , and eight thousand ...
Kingston is about a mile long and the same in breadth , containing about two thousand houses , besides negro huts ; the number of white inhabitants are about three thousand , free people of colour twelve hundred , and eight thousand ...
الصفحة 36
Spanish Town , before - mentioned , is the metropolis , and contains about nine hundred houses , and three thousand inhabitants of all denominations , and is about thirteen miles from Kingson ; the road is quite level , and the best in ...
Spanish Town , before - mentioned , is the metropolis , and contains about nine hundred houses , and three thousand inhabitants of all denominations , and is about thirteen miles from Kingson ; the road is quite level , and the best in ...
الصفحة 37
Port Royal was once the greatest place of trade in the West Indies ; but by repeated cala . mities it is reduced to about two hundred houses ; it contains the royal navy dock yard for heaving down ships ; is ten miles from Spanish Town ...
Port Royal was once the greatest place of trade in the West Indies ; but by repeated cala . mities it is reduced to about two hundred houses ; it contains the royal navy dock yard for heaving down ships ; is ten miles from Spanish Town ...
الصفحة 38
The number of sugar plantations are computed to be one thousand fixty eight , and to make upon an averageone hundred and fix thousand of Muscovado sugar yearly , and fifty three thousand puncheons of rum ; there are about cwo thousand ...
The number of sugar plantations are computed to be one thousand fixty eight , and to make upon an averageone hundred and fix thousand of Muscovado sugar yearly , and fifty three thousand puncheons of rum ; there are about cwo thousand ...
الصفحة 39
... trees by the roots , level the strongest stores and houses to the ground , and leave not only towns and plantations , but whole parishes waste , and hurry unprepared into eternity hundreds of our unhappy brethren of all colours .
... trees by the roots , level the strongest stores and houses to the ground , and leave not only towns and plantations , but whole parishes waste , and hurry unprepared into eternity hundreds of our unhappy brethren of all colours .
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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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