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 Edition |
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... and force her way through seas foaming with madness in almost opposite direction to the winds : to sink unhurt between saline rolling hills , and rise and glide again triumphant over the furious tops of liquid mountains .
... and force her way through seas foaming with madness in almost opposite direction to the winds : to sink unhurt between saline rolling hills , and rise and glide again triumphant over the furious tops of liquid mountains .
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... throughout almost all seasons of the year , and is certainly very unfriendly to European conftitutions , and would be more so were it not for the sea - breeze , which sets in every morning about nine or ten o'clock , increasing as ...
... throughout almost all seasons of the year , and is certainly very unfriendly to European conftitutions , and would be more so were it not for the sea - breeze , which sets in every morning about nine or ten o'clock , increasing as ...
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... and when | the hot fit is off , to drink the bark . Samuel - for his sores , to bathe them in the decoction of limes and cushue leaves . " 1 Fevers , agues , dry belly - achs , consumptions , and almost innumerable other diseases ...
... and when | the hot fit is off , to drink the bark . Samuel - for his sores , to bathe them in the decoction of limes and cushue leaves . " 1 Fevers , agues , dry belly - achs , consumptions , and almost innumerable other diseases ...
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... all weathers , to the sun's almost intolerable heat , and heavy rains , in the months of January and Februáry ; when fainting beneath his meridian rays for want of a cooling breeze , I frequently plunged myself into a river or gully ...
... all weathers , to the sun's almost intolerable heat , and heavy rains , in the months of January and Februáry ; when fainting beneath his meridian rays for want of a cooling breeze , I frequently plunged myself into a river or gully ...
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There are many ways of curing c - ps ; every quack almost prescribes differently , and though every one will pretend to cure it , not one in twenty can do it radically . The following prescription , which I got from an eminent physician ...
There are many ways of curing c - ps ; every quack almost prescribes differently , and though every one will pretend to cure it , not one in twenty can do it radically . The following prescription , which I got from an eminent physician ...
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