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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... hundred and eighty fail ) . We then with dif- ficulty got ashore , the swell or furf at the beech being always so strong , that small boats would be dashed to pieces if great care was not taken to keep them a float some distance from ...
... hundred and eighty fail ) . We then with dif- ficulty got ashore , the swell or furf at the beech being always so strong , that small boats would be dashed to pieces if great care was not taken to keep them a float some distance from ...
الصفحة 13
... hundred houses ; the natives are Portuguese , and dress in the fame uniform of their custom - house officers ; their ... hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ; what pity that fine young women should be compelled to whither ...
... hundred houses ; the natives are Portuguese , and dress in the fame uniform of their custom - house officers ; their ... hundreds of them , are cooped up in convents ; what pity that fine young women should be compelled to whither ...
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... hundred mouths , an hundred tongues . " AIR . My Friend and Pitcher . How happy is the doctor's fate In that sweet clime : he once gets footing , Ador'd by all on each eftate , Enjoys his girl , and wants for nothing . His pills and ...
... hundred mouths , an hundred tongues . " AIR . My Friend and Pitcher . How happy is the doctor's fate In that sweet clime : he once gets footing , Ador'd by all on each eftate , Enjoys his girl , and wants for nothing . His pills and ...
الصفحة 21
... hundred , or one hundred and fifty pounds for the attendance of the negroes and and whites on each plantation yearly , and all that for about thirty shillings worth of medicine When a quack has many plantations to attend he visits each ...
... hundred , or one hundred and fifty pounds for the attendance of the negroes and and whites on each plantation yearly , and all that for about thirty shillings worth of medicine When a quack has many plantations to attend he visits each ...
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... hundred and fifty miles long , and fixty broad , containing about fix thou- sand square miles , and is about four thousand five hundred miles from England , and was discovered in the year 1493 , by Christopher Columbus , a very ...
... hundred and fifty miles long , and fixty broad , containing about fix thou- sand square miles , and is about four thousand five hundred miles from England , and was discovered in the year 1493 , by Christopher Columbus , a very ...
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