The Importance of Jamaica to Great-Britain, consider'd. With some account of that island, from its discovery in 1492 to this time: and a list of the governors and presidents, with an account of their towns, harbours, bays, buildings, inhabitants, whites and negroes, &c. The country and people cleared from misrepresentations; the misbehaviour of Spanish governors by entertaining pirates, and plundering the inhabitants and merchants of Jamaica, and the rise of the pirates among them. An account of their fruits, drugs, timber and dying-woods, and of the uses they are apply'd to there: with a description of exotick plants, preserved in the gardens of the curious in England; and of the kitchen and flower-gardens in the West-Indies. Also of their beasts, birds, fishes, and insects; with their eatables and potables, distempers and remedies. With an account of their trade and produce; with the advantages they are of to Great-Britain, Ireland, and the colonies in North-America, and the commodities

People / Organizations

• Anne Dodd II ("printed for")

Imprint

London : Printed for A. Dodd, at the Peacock without Temple-Bar, [1740?]

Publication year

1740

ESTC No.

T77715

Grub Street ID

299756

Description

[2],81,[1]p. ; 8°.

Note

Price in square brackets: (Price One Shilling and Sixpence.)