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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1 Thus far I have said of diseases peculiar to the West Indies , and of physic , though I know nothing of the latter but what I experienced from observations on the treatment of myself and others ; and if I had a little more experience ...
1 Thus far I have said of diseases peculiar to the West Indies , and of physic , though I know nothing of the latter but what I experienced from observations on the treatment of myself and others ; and if I had a little more experience ...
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several instances of people being devoured by Sharks at that part of the town ; indeed it is very unsafe to bathe in any part of the sea in the West Indies . The houses , though some are tolerable elegant , built of brick or wood ...
several instances of people being devoured by Sharks at that part of the town ; indeed it is very unsafe to bathe in any part of the sea in the West Indies . The houses , though some are tolerable elegant , built of brick or wood ...
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Port Royal was once the greatest place of trade in the West Indies ; but by repeated cala . mities it is reduced to about two hundred houses ; it contains the royal navy dock yard for heaving down ships ; is ten miles from Spanish Town ...
Port Royal was once the greatest place of trade in the West Indies ; but by repeated cala . mities it is reduced to about two hundred houses ; it contains the royal navy dock yard for heaving down ships ; is ten miles from Spanish Town ...
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These awful and tremendous dispensations of Providence frequently happen , not only in Jamaica , but all over the Weft Indies ; but when hurricanes are attended with earthquakes , the vallies shake , and the mountains nod .
These awful and tremendous dispensations of Providence frequently happen , not only in Jamaica , but all over the Weft Indies ; but when hurricanes are attended with earthquakes , the vallies shake , and the mountains nod .
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Jamaica - rum is reputed the best that is made in the West - Indies , because it is the strongest , and commonly sinks a bubble of twenty - four ; the rum in all the other British islands might be made equal to that of Jamaica , but it ...
Jamaica - rum is reputed the best that is made in the West - Indies , because it is the strongest , and commonly sinks a bubble of twenty - four ; the rum in all the other British islands might be made equal to that of Jamaica , but it ...
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