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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الصفحة 23
... feet wet , for they are the forerunners of almoft innumerable diseases . In wet weather , the air , though cool , is more unhealthy than at other times ; alfo the water , owing to its unfettled muddy ftate ; for all the filth and dirt ...
... feet wet , for they are the forerunners of almoft innumerable diseases . In wet weather , the air , though cool , is more unhealthy than at other times ; alfo the water , owing to its unfettled muddy ftate ; for all the filth and dirt ...
الصفحة 24
... feet get wet , though you be far from any house , take off your shoes and stockings , wash them and let them dry , and then put them on again ; and if you wish to enjoy the pleasure and benefit of bathing , and bracing your limbs in a ...
... feet get wet , though you be far from any house , take off your shoes and stockings , wash them and let them dry , and then put them on again ; and if you wish to enjoy the pleasure and benefit of bathing , and bracing your limbs in a ...
الصفحة 38
... feet high in fome places ; this I was convinced of after the flood abated , by obferving part of a negro hut and other wreck , ftuck faft in the branches of a large filk - cotton tree adjoining the river . May and October are commonly ...
... feet high in fome places ; this I was convinced of after the flood abated , by obferving part of a negro hut and other wreck , ftuck faft in the branches of a large filk - cotton tree adjoining the river . May and October are commonly ...
الصفحة 39
... feet beyond its ufual bounds , and swallow valuable stores and wharfs ; nay , it has been remarked , that the earth opened her greedy womb , swallowed up whole mountains , filled up the course of rivers , and caufed rivers to flow where ...
... feet beyond its ufual bounds , and swallow valuable stores and wharfs ; nay , it has been remarked , that the earth opened her greedy womb , swallowed up whole mountains , filled up the course of rivers , and caufed rivers to flow where ...
الصفحة 42
... intended for canes is firft cleared of all fhrubbery , and lined , if level , from one end to the other , as fttrait as poffible with a line and fquare : the line is # is marked at every feven or eight feet with a 42 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... intended for canes is firft cleared of all fhrubbery , and lined , if level , from one end to the other , as fttrait as poffible with a line and fquare : the line is # is marked at every feven or eight feet with a 42 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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