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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الصفحة 29
... and fo introduce an avenue for rhumatic pains ( what diffipated rakes call the gout ) to follow feveral years aftar , and attend him to his last hours : nor fhould he , if poffible , entertain even one amorous thought the whole time ...
... and fo introduce an avenue for rhumatic pains ( what diffipated rakes call the gout ) to follow feveral years aftar , and attend him to his last hours : nor fhould he , if poffible , entertain even one amorous thought the whole time ...
الصفحة 30
... the whole being over , and your ftomach at ease , drink fome thin water gruel , which probably will work you downwards ; next morning take the purge diffolved in a cup of warm water , and work it off with thin gruel or weak tea ...
... the whole being over , and your ftomach at ease , drink fome thin water gruel , which probably will work you downwards ; next morning take the purge diffolved in a cup of warm water , and work it off with thin gruel or weak tea ...
الصفحة 38
... and the whole county of Cornwall , were almost destroyed by an hurricane and heavy rains , Mina rofe about thirty feet high in fome places ; this I was convinced of after the flood abated , by obferving part of a negro hut and other ...
... and the whole county of Cornwall , were almost destroyed by an hurricane and heavy rains , Mina rofe about thirty feet high in fome places ; this I was convinced of after the flood abated , by obferving part of a negro hut and other ...
الصفحة 39
... trees by the roots , level the ftrongest ftores and houfes to the ground , and leave not only towns and plantations , but whole parishes wafte , and hurry unprepared into eternity hundreds of our unhappy brethren of all colours .
... trees by the roots , level the ftrongest ftores and houfes to the ground , and leave not only towns and plantations , but whole parishes wafte , and hurry unprepared into eternity hundreds of our unhappy brethren of all colours .
الصفحة 43
... fall back three feet and a half , and line and mark another row as they did the first , still falling back three feet and a half each time till they have lined the whole piece ( two fmart handy boys or girls are appointed for liners ...
... fall back three feet and a half , and line and mark another row as they did the first , still falling back three feet and a half each time till they have lined the whole piece ( two fmart handy boys or girls are appointed for liners ...
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