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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... turn to her original pofition , and force her way through feas foaming with madness in almost oppofite direction to the winds : to fink unhurt between faline rolling hills , and rife and glide again triumphant over the furious tops of ...
... turn to her original pofition , and force her way through feas foaming with madness in almost oppofite direction to the winds : to fink unhurt between faline rolling hills , and rife and glide again triumphant over the furious tops of ...
الصفحة 13
... turning four by heat like other wines , this improves vaftly in warm climates the older it becomes , and is an excellent medicine , I am informed , in intermitting fevers ; there are as different qualities of this wine as there are of ...
... turning four by heat like other wines , this improves vaftly in warm climates the older it becomes , and is an excellent medicine , I am informed , in intermitting fevers ; there are as different qualities of this wine as there are of ...
الصفحة 17
J. B. Moreton. legs , through the venom of the mufquittoes , to turn to mortifications , whereby they loft their lives . Each night when I lay on my bed , My wearied limbs to rest , Their humming fongs kept me in dread , And fore my mind ...
J. B. Moreton. legs , through the venom of the mufquittoes , to turn to mortifications , whereby they loft their lives . Each night when I lay on my bed , My wearied limbs to rest , Their humming fongs kept me in dread , And fore my mind ...
الصفحة 46
... turn red , or ( as they fay ) get burnt ; after which , though they must be cut to clear the field , they are not worth the expence of cutting . Burnt canes make a fort of dirty black fugar without any grain , fomething like that which ...
... turn red , or ( as they fay ) get burnt ; after which , though they must be cut to clear the field , they are not worth the expence of cutting . Burnt canes make a fort of dirty black fugar without any grain , fomething like that which ...
الصفحة 47
... turns the main roller , and thereby the other two alfo ; this is what is called a cattle mill ; wind and water mills are all differently con- ftructed . The canes being cut , and all the trash lopped off , are carried in wanes , or if ...
... turns the main roller , and thereby the other two alfo ; this is what is called a cattle mill ; wind and water mills are all differently con- ftructed . The canes being cut , and all the trash lopped off , are carried in wanes , or if ...
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