A Descriptive Account of the Island of Jamaica: With Remarks Upon the Cultivation of the Sugar-cane, ... Also Observations and Reflections Upon what Would Probably be the Consequences of an Abolition of the Slave-trade, and of the Emancipation of the Slaves. By William Beckford, Esq. ... In Two Volumes. ...

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T. and J. Egerton, 1790 - Agriculture

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Page 281 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 51 - It commonly rises from three to eight feet or more in height, a difference of growth that very strongly marks the difference of soil or the varieties of culture. It is, when ripe, of a bright and golden yellow; and where obvious to the sun, is in most parts very beautifully streaked with red.
Page 107 - ... and extent of the calamity) : the very materials of which it had been compofed, had been carried away by the refiftlefs fury of the waves, which finally completed what the wind began. A very great proportion of the poor inhabitants were...
Page 51 - ... yellow, with long and narrow leaves depending; from the centre of which shoots up an arrow, like a silver wand, from two to six feet in height, and from the summit of which grows out a plume of white feathers, which are delicately fringed with lilac dye ; and indeed is, in its appearance, not much unlike the tuft that adorns this particular and elegant tree.
Page 8 - The sea is, in general, extremely smooth and brilliant, and before the breeze begins to ripple its glossy surface, is so remarkably transparent, that you can perceive (as if there were no intervening medium) the rocks and sands at a considerable depth, the weeds and coral that adorn the first, and the stars and other testaceous fishes that repose upon the last. " Every passing cloud affords some pleasing variation, and the glowing vapours of the atmosphere, when the sun arises or declines, and when...
Page 50 - A field of such canes when standing in the month of November, when it is in arrow or full blossom, is one of the most beautiful productions that the pen or pencil can possibly describe.
Page lvi - Majefty's fubjefts, and navigated according to law, from any of the faid iflands, to any port or place within the faid United States, upon payment of the fame duties on exportation, and...
Page lv - ... to duties, drawbacks or otherwise, for carrying on the trade and commerce between the people and territories belonging to the crown of Great Britain, and the people and territories of the said United States, as to his Majesty in council shall appear most expedient and salutary ; any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding...
Page 107 - Pcrfons, who the day before were pofTefled, not only of every domeftic comfort, but of every reafonable luxury of life, were now obliged to feek for fhelter on a board ; and were expofed, in...
Page 217 - Caramantee-flutes are made from the porous branches of the trumpet-tree, are about a yard in length, and of nearly the thickness of the upper part of a Bassoon: they have generally three holes at the bottom; are held, in point of direction, like the haut-boy; and while the right hand stops the holes, in the left is shaken, by one of the party, a hollow ball that is filled with pebbles.

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