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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... 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 , which I hope I never fhall , I should think myfelf ...
... 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 , which I hope I never fhall , I should think myfelf ...
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... Indies . The houses , though fome are tolerable elegant , built of brick or wood , are very irregular ; the piazza's are in the fame manner , so that a franger or drunken man , of a dark night , unless he walks in the middle of the ...
... Indies . The houses , though fome are tolerable elegant , built of brick or wood , are very irregular ; the piazza's are in the fame manner , so that a franger or drunken man , of a dark night , unless he walks in the middle of the ...
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... 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 , and fix miles from Kingston ; and as it stands on a fandy ...
... 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 , and fix miles from Kingston ; and as it stands on a fandy ...
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... Indies ; but when hurricanes are attended with earthquakes , the vallies shake , and the mountains nod . I myself once beheld them trembling all round me , and their rocky ftupendous tops precipitating their rugged cliffs ; I faw the ...
... Indies ; but when hurricanes are attended with earthquakes , the vallies shake , and the mountains nod . I myself once beheld them trembling all round me , and their rocky ftupendous tops precipitating their rugged cliffs ; I faw the ...
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... 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 the fault of the planters in mixing the firft runnings of ...
... 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 the fault of the planters in mixing the firft runnings of ...
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