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This estate contained 2998 acres of land, including Sandy Gut, a small estate which was purchased and added to it in 1815; 300 acres in sugarcane, 500 fallow and in pasture, the remainder in excellent negro provision grounds, woodland and ruinate.

This view embraces the works of the estate, with its aqueduct for supply of the water-mill. In the distance are seen the works of Brimmer Hall, with the Overseer's House on the eminence.

View of Spring Garden Estate located in the parish of St. George (now divided between St. Mary and Portland). This estate was one of the properties of John Rock Grosett, Esq., M.P. This plantation is contiguous to the sea-shore, and adjoins the left…

This estate was situated westward of St. Ann's Bay and was the usual residence of John Blagrove, Esq., when in Jamaica. This view is taken from the great interior road, and represents the Pimento Grove at the south entrance of the house. On the right…

Montpelier Estate, property of C.R. Ellis Esq. In this view, the first building on the left is the barracks or residence of the book-keepers; the next the overseer's house and offices; on the knoll is the hospital; below is the cattle-mill, and next…

Print showing a part of the Holland Estate in St. Thomas in the East. This was the property of George Watson Taylor, Esq. M.P. and occupied a very great portion of the eastermost extremity of the valley of Plantain Garden River. This view presents…

A view of the Whitney Estate located in Clarendon. This was the property of Viscount Dudley and Ward and was situated on the great interior road which connected St. Elizabeth with St. Dorothy's, at the distance of about thirty-five miles from Spanish…

From the field the canes are immediately carried in carts drawn by mules or oxen to the mill.

Weeding the young canes succeeds planting when the cane is about twenty inches in height. Cutting canes, in general, commences in January in which the Negro seizes the cane by the top and cuts off the upper joints to plant for the next crop; he then…