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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... seasons of the year , and is certainly very unfriendly to European con- stitutions , and would be more so were it not for the fea - breeze , which fets in every morning about nine or ten o'clock , increasing as the fun gathers strength ...
... seasons of the year , and is certainly very unfriendly to European con- stitutions , and would be more so were it not for the fea - breeze , which fets in every morning about nine or ten o'clock , increasing as the fun gathers strength ...
الصفحة 22
... seasons . Mars - for the weakness in his joints , to drink plentifully of the decoction of lignumvita , and take a few drops of balfam capivia twice daily . Old Heitor and Sambo - for the pains in their sto- machs , to eat plenty of ...
... seasons . Mars - for the weakness in his joints , to drink plentifully of the decoction of lignumvita , and take a few drops of balfam capivia twice daily . Old Heitor and Sambo - for the pains in their sto- machs , to eat plenty of ...
الصفحة 38
... seasons , as they are called ) fet in , and violently fall for feveral days ; fometimes in rapid torrents , com- posing innumerable rivers and gullies , and in some places laying many low plantations under deluges of water , forcing the ...
... seasons , as they are called ) fet in , and violently fall for feveral days ; fometimes in rapid torrents , com- posing innumerable rivers and gullies , and in some places laying many low plantations under deluges of water , forcing the ...
الصفحة 42
... seasons , partridges , quails , Guinea - hens , butter - birds , plovers and snipes . Was I to treat largely of the cultivation of the lands , establishing of plantations and farms , making fugar and rum , & c . it would of itself make ...
... seasons , partridges , quails , Guinea - hens , butter - birds , plovers and snipes . Was I to treat largely of the cultivation of the lands , establishing of plantations and farms , making fugar and rum , & c . it would of itself make ...
الصفحة 59
... seasons set in the grass is taken and planted , fix or seven blades in a hole , and in some weeks after cleared and moulded . When three or : four hundred acres of land is properly fenced round and divided into different lots , the ...
... seasons set in the grass is taken and planted , fix or seven blades in a hole , and in some weeks after cleared and moulded . When three or : four hundred acres of land is properly fenced round and divided into different lots , the ...
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