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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الصفحة 26
... these are all feverish symptoms , and proceed from the disorder and foulness of the stomach ; a vomit of tartar emetic , and a purge or two , timely and properly administered , and afterwards a few does of Peruvian bark , each infused ...
... these are all feverish symptoms , and proceed from the disorder and foulness of the stomach ; a vomit of tartar emetic , and a purge or two , timely and properly administered , and afterwards a few does of Peruvian bark , each infused ...
الصفحة 31
... these stages of the p - x , be very studious to get yourself , if possible , properly cured ; it is then you will need the assistance of fome skilful physician : for should it by tampering and quackery , and long continuance , corrupt ...
... these stages of the p - x , be very studious to get yourself , if possible , properly cured ; it is then you will need the assistance of fome skilful physician : for should it by tampering and quackery , and long continuance , corrupt ...
الصفحة 33
... these are fubdivided into twenty parishes , trees and shrubs of various kinds , wear- ing perpetual verdure , veil all the mountains and craggy rocks , save only fome small spots here and there , which are cleared for guinea grafs ...
... these are fubdivided into twenty parishes , trees and shrubs of various kinds , wear- ing perpetual verdure , veil all the mountains and craggy rocks , save only fome small spots here and there , which are cleared for guinea grafs ...
الصفحة 37
... these places ; the ufual fare for a boat , if hired by one person , is a dollar , but if there are many passengers only two bitts for each . Montego Bay , next to Kingston for trade , is about one hundred and twenty five miles dif- tant ...
... these places ; the ufual fare for a boat , if hired by one person , is a dollar , but if there are many passengers only two bitts for each . Montego Bay , next to Kingston for trade , is about one hundred and twenty five miles dif- tant ...
الصفحة 38
... forcing the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their fslaves and live stock , to take shelter in the mountains ! 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 fslaves and live stock , to take shelter in the mountains ! mountains until the waters abate ; these heavy rains 38 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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