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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... particularly is the best , and is fold for about forty pounds sterling per pipe . The capital is Fonchial , and con- tains about five hundred houses ; the natives are Portuguese , and dress in the fame uniform of their custom - house ...
... particularly is the best , and is fold for about forty pounds sterling per pipe . The capital is Fonchial , and con- tains about five hundred houses ; the natives are Portuguese , and dress in the fame uniform of their custom - house ...
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... particularly from Glasgow , Aber- deen , and Dublin , administers poifonous pills and stuff with as much consequence as Millwood or Mead . What pity , that man should be so grossly imposed ۱ imposed on , or that physic should be thus ...
... particularly from Glasgow , Aber- deen , and Dublin , administers poifonous pills and stuff with as much consequence as Millwood or Mead . What pity , that man should be so grossly imposed ۱ imposed on , or that physic should be thus ...
الصفحة 41
... particularly parrots , paroquets , wood - peckers , and doves of various kinds : the mournful cooing of the latter thrills most charmingly through the ears . The woods afford shelter for vast numbers of wild cattle and swine , and fome ...
... particularly parrots , paroquets , wood - peckers , and doves of various kinds : the mournful cooing of the latter thrills most charmingly through the ears . The woods afford shelter for vast numbers of wild cattle and swine , and fome ...
الصفحة 42
... particularly with the pork , which is remarkable delicate in flavour , and fuperior to any which can be procured elsewhere . The re- gulated prices of fresh provisions are as follows : Beef 7'd . per lb. mutton 9d.`pork 5d . fish 5d . a ...
... particularly with the pork , which is remarkable delicate in flavour , and fuperior to any which can be procured elsewhere . The re- gulated prices of fresh provisions are as follows : Beef 7'd . per lb. mutton 9d.`pork 5d . fish 5d . a ...
الصفحة 82
... ( particularly if he could find they had friends ) , he treacherously exerted every base means to injure them , least they should fup- plant him or get preferred ; but when he chanced to meet an infignificant puppy like himself , they ...
... ( particularly if he could find they had friends ) , he treacherously exerted every base means to injure them , least they should fup- plant him or get preferred ; but when he chanced to meet an infignificant puppy like himself , they ...
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