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Excerpt from A Voyage to the Demerary: Containing a Statistical Account of the Settlements There, and of Those on the Essequebo, the Berbice, and Other Contiguous Rivers of Guyana
Dutch servants and negroes, 48 - Splendor of Dutch households, 49 - Variety of inhabitants, SO - Hucksters, til - Butchers, 52 - Fishers, 53 - Public wor ship alternately Dutch and English, 54 - Lazaretto, 55 - Shingles, 55 - House rent, 56 - Price of labor, 57 - Cost of building, 51 - Law-charges, 58-public negroes, or galley-slaves, 59 - Hospital at Labourgade, GO - Benevolent rate, or lurk en arm geld, 61 - Super?uity of glass bottles, 63 - Barbadoes packet boat, 63 - Macaronic advertisements in the Essequebo gazette, 64 - Public buildings, 65 - Fees of office, 66 - Necessity of attaching an English recorder to the Dutch fiscal, as assessor, 66-vast in?uence of the fiscal, 67 - Law against the private importation of colonists, 67 - Ridiculous anecdote, 68 - 'exploiteur, 68 - Custom-house, 69 - Vendue-master, 70 - Paper money, 70 - Par of ex change, 71 - State of public defence, 72 - Funerals, 73.
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