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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... these are all feverish symptoms , and proceed from the diforder and foulness of the ftomach ; a vomit of tartar emetic , and a purge or two , timely and properly adminiftered , and afterwards a few dof of Peruvian bark , each infused in ...
... these are all feverish symptoms , and proceed from the diforder and foulness of the ftomach ; a vomit of tartar emetic , and a purge or two , timely and properly adminiftered , and afterwards a few dof of Peruvian bark , each infused in ...
الصفحة 38
... forcing the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their flaves and live ftock , to take fhelter in the mountains 1 mountains until the waters abate ; these heavy rains 38 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... forcing the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their flaves and live ftock , to take fhelter in the mountains 1 mountains until the waters abate ; these heavy rains 38 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 39
... These awful and tremendous difpenfations of Providence frequently happen , not only in Jamaica , but all over the West Indies ; but when hurricanes are attended with earthquakes , the vallies shake , and the mountains nod . I myself ...
... These awful and tremendous difpenfations of Providence frequently happen , not only in Jamaica , but all over the West Indies ; but when hurricanes are attended with earthquakes , the vallies shake , and the mountains nod . I myself ...
الصفحة 47
... these rollers being filled with hard wood , and coged all round , and fupported on the mill bed , about eighteen inches from the ground , on fmall pieces of metal about the fize and shape of whipping - tops , called capoufes ; the main ...
... these rollers being filled with hard wood , and coged all round , and fupported on the mill bed , about eighteen inches from the ground , on fmall pieces of metal about the fize and shape of whipping - tops , called capoufes ; the main ...
الصفحة 49
... these , without expofing his conftitution to the menial , toilfome , and painful drudgeries of an overfeer's life , for three , four , or five years : He may attempt it , -but how infignificant and aukward must a man appear , who ...
... these , without expofing his conftitution to the menial , toilfome , and painful drudgeries of an overfeer's life , for three , four , or five years : He may attempt it , -but how infignificant and aukward must a man appear , who ...
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