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 difficulty got afhore , the fwell or furf at the beech being always fo ftrong , that fmall boats would be dafhed to pieces if great care was not taken to keep them a float fome diftance from the ...
... hundred and eighty fail ) . We then with difficulty got afhore , the fwell or furf at the beech being always fo ftrong , that fmall boats would be dafhed to pieces if great care was not taken to keep them a float fome diftance from the ...
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... hundred houses ; the natives are Portuguese , and drefs in the fame uniform of their custom - houfe officers ; their characteristic is , that they are poor , proud , fuperftitious and treacherous ; the finest of their women , fome hundreds ...
... hundred houses ; the natives are Portuguese , and drefs in the fame uniform of their custom - houfe officers ; their characteristic is , that they are poor , proud , fuperftitious and treacherous ; the finest of their women , fome hundreds ...
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... hundred mouths , an hundred tongues . " AIR . My Friend and Pitcher . How happy is the doctor's fate In that fweet clime : he once gets footing , Ador'd by all on each estate , 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 fweet clime : he once gets footing , Ador'd by all on each estate , 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 tha for about thirty fhillings worth of medicine When a quack has many plantations to attend he vifits each ...
... hundred , or one hundred and fifty pounds for the attendance of the negroes and and whites on each plantation yearly , and all tha for about thirty fhillings worth of medicine When a quack has many plantations to attend he vifits each ...
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... hundred and fifty miles . long , and ffxty broad , containing about fix thoufand fquare miles , and is about four thousand five hundred miles from England , and was difcovered in the year 1493 , by Chriftopher Columbus , a very ...
... hundred and fifty miles . long , and ffxty broad , containing about fix thoufand fquare miles , and is about four thousand five hundred miles from England , and was difcovered in the year 1493 , by Chriftopher Columbus , a very ...
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