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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... almost opposite direction to the winds : to fink unhurt between faline rolling hills , and rise and glide again triumphant over the furious tops of liquid mountains . By night , too , the grand and awful beauties of the deep are a ...
... almost opposite direction to the winds : to fink unhurt between faline rolling hills , and rise and glide again triumphant over the furious tops of liquid mountains . By night , too , the grand and awful beauties of the deep are a ...
الصفحة 17
... almost all seasons of the year , and is certainly very unfriendly to European con- stitutions , and would be more so were it not for the fea - breeze , which fets in every morning about nine or ten o'clock , increasing as the fun ...
... almost all seasons of the year , and is certainly very unfriendly to European con- stitutions , and would be more so were it not for the fea - breeze , which fets in every morning about nine or ten o'clock , increasing as the fun ...
الصفحة 22
... almost innumerable other diseases , are fre- quent and often fatal attendants , not only on Eu- ropeans , but Creoles also ; it often amazed me to find how imperceptibly my flesh melted , or stole away from my skin and bones , till I ...
... almost innumerable other diseases , are fre- quent and often fatal attendants , not only on Eu- ropeans , but Creoles also ; it often amazed me to find how imperceptibly my flesh melted , or stole away from my skin and bones , till I ...
الصفحة 23
... almost intolerable heat , and heavy rains , in the months of January and Fe- bruary ; when fainting beneath his meridian rays for want of a cooling breeze , I frequently plunged myself into a river or gully , though I never ex ...
... almost intolerable heat , and heavy rains , in the months of January and Fe- bruary ; when fainting beneath his meridian rays for want of a cooling breeze , I frequently plunged myself into a river or gully , though I never ex ...
الصفحة 29
... almost prescribes differently ; and though every one will pretend to cure it , not one in twenty can do it radically . The following pre- scription , which I got from an eminent physician , cured me and many others effectually . C3 . R ...
... almost prescribes differently ; and though every one will pretend to cure it , not one in twenty can do it radically . The following pre- scription , which I got from an eminent physician , cured me and many others effectually . C3 . R ...
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