A topographical and political description of the Spanish part of Saint-Domingo : containing, general observations on the climate, population and productions ; on the character and manners of the inhabitants ; with an account of the several branches of the government / M. L. E. Moreau de Saint-Méry, William Cobbett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saint-Méry, M. L. E. Moreau de, author.

Cobbett, William, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dominican Republic--Description and travel.

Dominican Republic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages)

Other Title:

Topographical and Political Description of the Spanish Part of Saint-Domingo

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : [publisher not identified], 1796.

Summary:

Ifland, Spaniih saint-domingo is in reality no more than a dead expence on the' mother country. Spain 13 obliged to fend annually the furns necefi'ary for the expences of The adrhiniftration of the colony, which I am now to give an account of. I {hall en deavour to 'unite here,_all {that is calculated to fatisf'y' the curiofity which mufit naturally be excited by the firfi plan, the firf't fyftem iconceived In Europe for the direction of dif'tant fettlements, the natural Rate and fituatron of which required, in fome fort, a new kind of government.

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