DESCRIPTIVE


ACCOUNT
OF THE

I S L A N D

OF

JAMAI C A:

WITH
Remarks upon the Cultivation of the SUGAR-CANE,
throughout the different Seafons of the Year, and chiefly
considered in a Piaurefque Point of View;

ALSO
Obfervations and Refletions upon what would probably be
the Confequences of an ABOLITION of the SLAVE-
TRADE, and of the EMANCIPATION of the SLAVES.

By WILLIAM BECKFORD, Efq.

Author of Remarks on the Situation of Negroes in Jamaica.


Sine me, liber, ibis in iurbh :
Hei mihi guod domino non licct ire tuo."

IN TWO VOLUMES.
V 0 L U M E Sf.
VOLUME It.


L 0 N D 0 N:
Printed for T. and J. E G ER T N, Whitehall.
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A DESCRIPTIVE

ACCOUNT
OF THE

I S L A N D

OF

JA MAI A.


BETWEEN Chriftmas and the actual
commencement of the crop, the negroes
are chiefly employed in what are called
odd jobs, and are consequently much di-
vided. Some are giving the laft finish to
the exterior parts of the cane-fields; fome
are cleaning the intervals; and fome, the
weakly ones in particular, are fet in to
chop the paftures, which is commonly the
laft thing done upon a plantation, except-
ing, perhaps, it be the putting in order and
fencing-in thofe places that may be fubjeft
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