@article{881785,
      recid = {881785},
      title = {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 they take in return from  them, with the danger they are in from the French at  Hispaniola, and their other islands and settlements on the  continent, by the encouragements they have over the British  planters. With instances of insults they have given His  Majesty's subjects in the West-Indies and on the main. With  the representation of His Late Majesty when elector of  Hanover, and of the House of Lords, against a peace, which  could not be safe or honourable if Spain or the West-Indies  were allotted to any branch of the House of Bourbon. In a  letter to a gentleman. In which is added, a postscript, of  the benefits which may arise by keeping of Carthagena, to  Great-Britain and our American colonies; with an account of  what goods are used in the Spanish trade, and hints of  settling it after the French method (by sending of women  there) and of the trade and method of living of the  Spaniards; and English South-Sea Company's factors there.  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Printed for A. Dodd, at the Peacock without Temple-Bar,},
      address = {London :},
      pages = {1 online resource ([2], 81, [1] p.)},
      year = {1740},
      note = {Price in square brackets: (Price One Shilling and  Sixpence.)},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/881785},
}