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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As Ireland when much oppress'd , With creatures full of stings , Was by St. Patrick once bless'd , Who banish'd pois'nous things ; I often with'd he had gone there , And shook his sacred wand , O'er all the isle , and in the air ...
As Ireland when much oppress'd , With creatures full of stings , Was by St. Patrick once bless'd , Who banish'd pois'nous things ; I often with'd he had gone there , And shook his sacred wand , O'er all the isle , and in the air ...
الصفحة 19
How happy is the doctor's fate In that sweet clime : he once gets footing , Ador'd by all on each estate , Enjoys his girl , and wants for nothing . His pills and potions coft not much ...
How happy is the doctor's fate In that sweet clime : he once gets footing , Ador'd by all on each estate , Enjoys his girl , and wants for nothing . His pills and potions coft not much ...
الصفحة 20
When fick and languid on my bed I lay , In fainting fits the live long night and day , By a vile quack , condemn'd at once to die , “ He's past all cure ” -a putrid lump was I ! A feeling friend , with thoughtless simple art ...
When fick and languid on my bed I lay , In fainting fits the live long night and day , By a vile quack , condemn'd at once to die , “ He's past all cure ” -a putrid lump was I ! A feeling friend , with thoughtless simple art ...
الصفحة 25
Health chiefly depends on the habit of the body ; if you find yourself costive , take a gentle purge , for you should have a stool once or twice daily . When your pulse beat strong and fast , like the ticking of a watch ; when you feel ...
Health chiefly depends on the habit of the body ; if you find yourself costive , take a gentle purge , for you should have a stool once or twice daily . When your pulse beat strong and fast , like the ticking of a watch ; when you feel ...
الصفحة 37
Port Royal was once the greatest place of trade in the West Indies ; but by repeated calamities 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 ...
Port Royal was once the greatest place of trade in the West Indies ; but by repeated calamities 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 ...
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