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N.B. In the Introduction, all the calculations are in current money of the Island, excepting in the valuation of Negroes and Estates in the British Inands; and where sterling does not immediately succeed a sum, that sum is supposed to be of the currency of Jamaica, of which 6.140 make 6.100 ferling.

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1 А М А

А І С

I CA:

WITH

Remarks upon the Cultivation of the SUGAR-CANE,

throughout the different Seasons of the Year, and chiefly
considered in a Picturesque Point of View;

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.
Author of Remarks on the Situation of Negroes in Jamaica,

« Sine me, liber, ibis in urbem :
Hei mibi! quod domino non licet ire tuo.'

IN TWO

V O L U M E S.

V O L U ME I.

LONDON:
Printed for T. and J. EGERTON, Whitehall.

MDCC, XC.

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