Plantation. See ARBORICULTURE. 'His Majesty's Plantations' was a not unusual term in the 17th and 18th centuries for the British settlements in America, to which it was customary to transport offenders, political and other, till the American Revolution. See PRISONS, TRANSPORTATION.
Plantation.
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