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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... almost oppofite direction to the winds : to fink unhurt between faline rolling hills , and rife and glide again triumphant over the furious tops of liquid mountains . By night , too , the grand and awful beauties of the deep are a ...
... almost oppofite direction to the winds : to fink unhurt between faline rolling hills , and rife and glide again triumphant over the furious tops of liquid mountains . By night , too , the grand and awful beauties of the deep are a ...
الصفحة 17
... almost all seasons of the year , and is certainly very unfriendly to European con- ftitutions , and would be more fo were it not for the fea - breeze , which fets in every morning about nine or ten o'clock , increafing as the fun ...
... almost all seasons of the year , and is certainly very unfriendly to European con- ftitutions , and would be more fo were it not for the fea - breeze , which fets in every morning about nine or ten o'clock , increafing as the fun ...
الصفحة 23
... almost intolerable heat , and heavy rains , in the months of January and Fe- bruary ; when fainting beneath his meridian rays for want of a cooling breeze , I frequently plunged myself into a river or gully , though I never ex ...
... almost intolerable heat , and heavy rains , in the months of January and Fe- bruary ; when fainting beneath his meridian rays for want of a cooling breeze , I frequently plunged myself into a river or gully , though I never ex ...
الصفحة 38
... 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 wreck , ftuck faft in the branches of a ...
... 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 wreck , ftuck faft in the branches of a ...
الصفحة 62
... almost as bad . Governor Campbell furprisingly gained the love and affection of the people ; he put the island in a proper state of defence , and is a brave and judicious general . The council is compofed of ten men , fome of whom are ...
... almost as bad . Governor Campbell furprisingly gained the love and affection of the people ; he put the island in a proper state of defence , and is a brave and judicious general . The council is compofed of ten men , fome of whom are ...
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