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 Edition |
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Thus far I have faid of difeafes peculiar to the Weft Indies , and of phyfic , though I know nothing of the latter but what I experienced from obfervations on the treatment of myfelf and others ; and if I had a little more experience ...
Thus far I have faid of difeafes peculiar to the Weft Indies , and of phyfic , though I know nothing of the latter but what I experienced from obfervations on the treatment of myfelf and others ; and if I had a little more experience ...
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feveral inftances of people being devoured by sharks at that part of the town ; indeed it is very unfafe to bathe in any part of the sea in the West Indies . The houses , though fome are tolerable elegant , built of brick or wood ...
feveral inftances of people being devoured by sharks at that part of the town ; indeed it is very unfafe to bathe in any part of the sea in the West Indies . The houses , though fome are tolerable elegant , built of brick or wood ...
الصفحة 37
Port Royal was once the greatest place of trade in the Weft Indies ; but by repeated calamities it is reduced to about two hundred houses ; it contains the royal navy dock yard for heaving down fhips ; is ten miles from Spanish Town ...
Port Royal was once the greatest place of trade in the Weft Indies ; but by repeated calamities it is reduced to about two hundred houses ; it contains the royal navy dock yard for heaving down fhips ; is ten miles from Spanish Town ...
الصفحة 39
These awful and tremendous difpenfations of Providence frequently happen , not only in Jamaica , but all over the West Indies ; but when hurricanes are attended with earthquakes , the vallies shake , and the mountains nod .
These awful and tremendous difpenfations of Providence frequently happen , not only in Jamaica , but all over the West Indies ; but when hurricanes are attended with earthquakes , the vallies shake , and the mountains nod .
الصفحة 56
Jamaica rum is reputed the best that is made in the Weft - Indies , because it is the strongest , and commonly finks a bubble of twenty - four ; the rum in all the other British islands might be made equal to that of Jamaica , but it is ...
Jamaica rum is reputed the best that is made in the Weft - Indies , because it is the strongest , and commonly finks a bubble of twenty - four ; the rum in all the other British islands might be made equal to that of Jamaica , but it is ...
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