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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... therefore strenuously recommend it to you to avoid heats and colds , rains , heavy fogs , mifts , or dews , as much as poffible , as well as getting your feet wet , for they are the forerunners of almoft innumerable diseases .
... therefore strenuously recommend it to you to avoid heats and colds , rains , heavy fogs , mifts , or dews , as much as poffible , as well as getting your feet wet , for they are the forerunners of almoft innumerable diseases .
الصفحة 24
When you chance to get wet , which you often will , be careful to change your apparel as foon as poffible , for wet clothes remaining on till they dry will restrain perfpiration , and may bring on an ague ; when your feet get wet ...
When you chance to get wet , which you often will , be careful to change your apparel as foon as poffible , for wet clothes remaining on till they dry will restrain perfpiration , and may bring on an ague ; when your feet get wet ...
الصفحة 38
... and the whole county of Cornwall , were almost destroyed by an hurricane and heavy rains , Mina rofe about thirty feet high in fome places ; this I was convinced of after the flood abated , by obferving part of a negro hut and other ...
... and the whole county of Cornwall , were almost destroyed by an hurricane and heavy rains , Mina rofe about thirty feet high in fome places ; this I was convinced of after the flood abated , by obferving part of a negro hut and other ...
الصفحة 39
I myself once beheld them trembling all round me , and their rocky ftupendous tops precipitating their rugged cliffs ; I faw the fea rife several feet beyond its usual bounds , and swallow up valuable ftores and wharfs ; nay , it has ...
I myself once beheld them trembling all round me , and their rocky ftupendous tops precipitating their rugged cliffs ; I faw the fea rife several feet beyond its usual bounds , and swallow up valuable ftores and wharfs ; nay , it has ...
الصفحة 42
The piece of ground intended for canes is firft cleared of all fhrubbery , and lined , if level , from one end to the other , as ftrait as poffible with a line and fquare : the line is is marked at every feven or eight feet with a 42 ...
The piece of ground intended for canes is firft cleared of all fhrubbery , and lined , if level , from one end to the other , as ftrait as poffible with a line and fquare : the line is is marked at every feven or eight feet with a 42 ...
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