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Description topographique, physique, civile, politique et historique de la partie francaise de l'isle Saint-Domingue. Avec des observations généales sur sa population, sur le caractère & les moeurs de ses divers habitans; sur son climat, sa culture, ses productions, son administration, &c. &c. Accompagnées des détails les plus propres à faire connaître l'état de cette colonie à l'époque du 18 Octobre 1789; et d'une nouvelle carte de la totalité de l'isle. Par M.L.E. Moreau de Saint-Méry. Tome premier[-second]. Comprenant, outre les objets généraux, la description des vingt & une Paroisses de la partie du nord & de l'Isle la Tortue. [One line of quotation]
Moreau de Saint-Méry, M. L. E. (Médéric Louis Elie), 1750-1819.Date: 1797[-1798]- Books
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Description of a plantation, situated at Petit St. Louis, near Port-de-Paix, in the northern part of Hispaniola; with all the buildings, belonging to the same and necessary to carry on the cultivation of such plantation; now offered to be exchanged, by J.B. & L. Samoual, proprietors, for goods, principally East-India, and partly public papers on St. Domingo, properly certified and signed by the public functionaries, and approved by the general in chief, Toussaint. This beautiful plantation, a plan of which is annexed, was surveyed in 1785, by the King's surveyor: and the following explanatory observations are the substance of a procës-verbal, signed by a number of respectable planters, whose property lies contiguous to it. The certificate of it, translated in the English language, together with the French original of it, shall be exhibited to any gentleman who may propose becoming a purchaser.
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A voyage to Saint Domingo, in the years 1788, 1789, and 1790. By Francis Alexander Stanislaus, Baron De Wimpffen. Translated from the original manuscript, which has never been published, by J. Wright.
Wimpffen, Alexandre-Stanislas de, 1748-1819.Date: MDCCCXVII. [1817]