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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... frequent and often fatal attendants , not only on Esropeans , but Creoles alfo ; it often amazed me to find how imperceptibly my flesh melted , or stole away from my fkin and bones , till I became the ghoft of what I had been .
... frequent and often fatal attendants , not only on Esropeans , but Creoles alfo ; it often amazed me to find how imperceptibly my flesh melted , or stole away from my fkin and bones , till I became the ghoft of what I had been .
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... alfo the water , owing to its unsettled muddy ftate ; for all the filth and dirt which is difperfed over the country is washed away , and circulates in every current , for which reason filtering stones are used , which not only ...
... alfo the water , owing to its unsettled muddy ftate ; for all the filth and dirt which is difperfed over the country is washed away , and circulates in every current , for which reason filtering stones are used , which not only ...
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... hardly ever ; a hot climate is beft for those who are of a confumptive nature ; mercurial purgatives are of effential fervice , nor fhould the patient by any means be diffuaded from taking them ; it is alfo neceffary to get blooded ...
... hardly ever ; a hot climate is beft for those who are of a confumptive nature ; mercurial purgatives are of effential fervice , nor fhould the patient by any means be diffuaded from taking them ; it is alfo neceffary to get blooded ...
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The theatre is a little , mean , narrow , close , fabrick ; there is also another public building , called Ranelagh House , in which ladies and gentlemen hold publick balls and affemblies ; there are alfo two free mafon lodges ...
The theatre is a little , mean , narrow , close , fabrick ; there is also another public building , called Ranelagh House , in which ladies and gentlemen hold publick balls and affemblies ; there are alfo two free mafon lodges ...
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... but none fo elegant , nor conducted with fuch regularity , as the one Mark Howard kept , now called the South Sea Houfe ; there are alfo an incredible number of petty ones , called grog fhops , occupied by people of the vileft ...
... but none fo elegant , nor conducted with fuch regularity , as the one Mark Howard kept , now called the South Sea Houfe ; there are alfo an incredible number of petty ones , called grog fhops , occupied by people of the vileft ...
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