West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New EditionJ. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 - 192 من الصفحات |
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... West Indies , and of physic , though I know no- thing of the latter but what I experienced from observations on the treatment of myself and others ; and if I had a little more experience , which I hope I never shall , I should think ...
... West Indies , and of physic , though I know no- thing of the latter but what I experienced from observations on the treatment of myself and others ; and if I had a little more experience , which I hope I never shall , I should think ...
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... West Indies . The houses , though some are tolerable elegant , built of brick or wood , are very irregular ; the piazza's are in the fame manner , so that a stranger or drunken man , of a dark night , unless he walks in the middle of ...
... West Indies . The houses , though some are tolerable elegant , built of brick or wood , are very irregular ; the piazza's are in the fame manner , so that a stranger or drunken man , of a dark night , unless he walks in the middle of ...
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... West Indies ; but by repeated cala- mities it is reduced to about two hundred houses ; it contains the royal navy dock yard for heaving down ships ; is ten miles from Spanish Town , and fix miles from Kingston ; and as it stands on a ...
... West Indies ; but by repeated cala- mities it is reduced to about two hundred houses ; it contains the royal navy dock yard for heaving down ships ; is ten miles from Spanish Town , and fix miles from Kingston ; and as it stands on a ...
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... West Indies ; but when hurricanes are attended with earthquakes , the vallies shake , and the mountains nod . I myself once beheld them trembling all round me , and their rocky stupen- dous tops precipitating their rugged cliffs ; I saw ...
... West Indies ; but when hurricanes are attended with earthquakes , the vallies shake , and the mountains nod . I myself once beheld them trembling all round me , and their rocky stupen- dous tops precipitating their rugged cliffs ; I saw ...
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... West - Indies , because it is the strongest , and commonly finks a bubble of twenty - four ; the rum in all the other British islands might be made equal to that of Jamaica , but it is the fault of the planters in mixing the first ...
... West - Indies , because it is the strongest , and commonly finks a bubble of twenty - four ; the rum in all the other British islands might be made equal to that of Jamaica , but it is the fault of the planters in mixing the first ...
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