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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... I saw any of them peeping through their horrid iron grates -- I suppose it is a patrage in St. Paul that induces them to live this recluse life , where he recommends a married life , but says , “ a a single life is better ” .
... I saw any of them peeping through their horrid iron grates -- I suppose it is a patrage in St. Paul that induces them to live this recluse life , where he recommends a married life , but says , “ a a single life is better ” .
الصفحة 14
1 gospel , and ' is to the following purport : “ That single christians during persecution can pass through adverse fortune better than those who have mates and children to provide for ; ” in many parts of scripture a single life is ...
1 gospel , and ' is to the following purport : “ That single christians during persecution can pass through adverse fortune better than those who have mates and children to provide for ; ” in many parts of scripture a single life is ...
الصفحة 26
It is always a sure sign of getting the better of a fever , when the lips blister and break out . An 1 . An ague proceeds from obstructed perspirations , or whatever 26 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
It is always a sure sign of getting the better of a fever , when the lips blister and break out . An 1 . An ague proceeds from obstructed perspirations , or whatever 26 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 45
After the first crop is taken off there springs up a second one , called rattoons , which often is better than the first . If the estate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ground is ...
After the first crop is taken off there springs up a second one , called rattoons , which often is better than the first . If the estate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ground is ...
الصفحة 54
I have always found that cisterns sunk in the floor , rammed well round with tough clay , about five feet square , and five feet deep , answer better than vats ; they should be fixed in rows with covers to them , built some distance ...
I have always found that cisterns sunk in the floor , rammed well round with tough clay , about five feet square , and five feet deep , answer better than vats ; they should be fixed in rows with covers to them , built some distance ...
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