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 37
... town , is an elegant building ; op- " pofite to which there is a pretty little fquare parade , railed round , where the guards are re- lieved every morning ; on the other fide of the parade , oppofite the king's houfe , there is a row ...
... town , is an elegant building ; op- " pofite to which there is a pretty little fquare parade , railed round , where the guards are re- lieved every morning ; on the other fide of the parade , oppofite the king's houfe , there is a row ...
الصفحة 38
... town of Savana - la - Mar , and the whole county of Cornwall , were almost destroyed by an hurricane and heavy rains , Mina rofe about thirty feet high in fome places ; this I was convinced of after the flood abated , by obferving part ...
... town of Savana - la - Mar , and the whole county of Cornwall , were almost destroyed by an hurricane and heavy rains , Mina rofe about thirty feet high in fome places ; this I was convinced of after the flood abated , by obferving part ...
الصفحة 39
... towns and plantations , but whole parishes waste , and hurry unprepared into eter- nity hundreds of our unhappy ... town , and anchor amongst the ruins of the houses ; the fame day a plantation was re- moved more than a mile from ...
... towns and plantations , but whole parishes waste , and hurry unprepared into eter- nity hundreds of our unhappy ... town , and anchor amongst the ruins of the houses ; the fame day a plantation was re- moved more than a mile from ...
الصفحة 42
... towns , particularly in Kingstown , daily ; the butchers flaughter fometime before day ; and about eight or nine o'clock the markets are all over , and the provifions either fold or carried away . The fea and rivers abound with great ...
... towns , particularly in Kingstown , daily ; the butchers flaughter fometime before day ; and about eight or nine o'clock the markets are all over , and the provifions either fold or carried away . The fea and rivers abound with great ...
الصفحة 64
... town , Spanish Town , Montego Bay , & c . a few of whom are English and Irish , but ten times the number of Scotch ; they all in general live ele- gantly ; it is not thought strange for a peasant's fon from Glasgow , or Aberdeen , in ...
... town , Spanish Town , Montego Bay , & c . a few of whom are English and Irish , but ten times the number of Scotch ; they all in general live ele- gantly ; it is not thought strange for a peasant's fon from Glasgow , or Aberdeen , in ...
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