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 11
... fometimes I have been almost induced to think I was failing through a flaming phosphorus . I fhall here fubmit an extract from a poem which I wrote on my firft voyage . When Sol , each day , withdrew his beams of light , And fable ...
... fometimes I have been almost induced to think I was failing through a flaming phosphorus . I fhall here fubmit an extract from a poem which I wrote on my firft voyage . When Sol , each day , withdrew his beams of light , And fable ...
الصفحة 12
... fometime after , a low , fat , fwarthy man , who could fpeak a little broken English , accompanied by two curious ill - looking fellows , yellow , tall and meagre , with black ragged coats and gold lace hats , fmall fwords , & c . & c ...
... fometime after , a low , fat , fwarthy man , who could fpeak a little broken English , accompanied by two curious ill - looking fellows , yellow , tall and meagre , with black ragged coats and gold lace hats , fmall fwords , & c . & c ...
الصفحة 27
... fometimes effectually cures . There is a hot bath near Spanish Town which gives immediate eafe ; indeed , any hot bath , whilft the patient remains in it , will give ease in like manner . A confumption proceeds from whatever cor- rupts ...
... fometimes effectually cures . There is a hot bath near Spanish Town which gives immediate eafe ; indeed , any hot bath , whilft the patient remains in it , will give ease in like manner . A confumption proceeds from whatever cor- rupts ...
الصفحة 38
... fometimes in rapid torrents , com- pofing innumerable rivers and gullies , and in fome places laying many low plantations under deluges of water , forcing the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their ...
... fometimes in rapid torrents , com- pofing innumerable rivers and gullies , and in fome places laying many low plantations under deluges of water , forcing the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their ...
الصفحة 39
... fometimes hurricanes , which blast the canes through the air like chaff , tear up the largest trees by the roots , level the ftrongest ftores and houfes to the ground , and leave not only towns and plantations , but whole parishes waste ...
... fometimes hurricanes , which blast the canes through the air like chaff , tear up the largest trees by the roots , level the ftrongest ftores and houfes to the ground , and leave not only towns and plantations , but whole parishes waste ...
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