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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... ftrong liquors given in generous portions to the failors ; and when they meet with griping low- life paffengers , woe betide them ! They will not only fhave them with a rufty iron hoop , but lather them with pitch and tar , and duck ...
... ftrong liquors given in generous portions to the failors ; and when they meet with griping low- life paffengers , woe betide them ! They will not only fhave them with a rufty iron hoop , but lather them with pitch and tar , and duck ...
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... ftrong and dif agreeable to yourself ; or , when you do not per- fpire as free as ufual ; when you feel yourself grow uncommonly heavy and drowsy ; when you have C a dif- a difagreeable tafte in your mouth , and your tongue IN THE WEST ...
... ftrong and dif agreeable to yourself ; or , when you do not per- fpire as free as ufual ; when you feel yourself grow uncommonly heavy and drowsy ; when you have C a dif- a difagreeable tafte in your mouth , and your tongue IN THE WEST ...
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... ftrong the duft rarifies fo abundantly , that a perfon paffing cannot fee the houfes nor paf- fengers , nor can he , but with much difficulty , pre- ferve his eye - fight . There are fome good taverns , coffee - houses , and lodging ...
... ftrong the duft rarifies fo abundantly , that a perfon paffing cannot fee the houfes nor paf- fengers , nor can he , but with much difficulty , pre- ferve his eye - fight . There are fome good taverns , coffee - houses , and lodging ...
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... the canes : Suffice it to fay , that a large fhingled roof , of a conical form , about 30 feet diameter , being fupported by twelve or fixteen ftrong ftrong hard wood pofts , fix or feven feet high 46 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... the canes : Suffice it to fay , that a large fhingled roof , of a conical form , about 30 feet diameter , being fupported by twelve or fixteen ftrong ftrong hard wood pofts , fix or feven feet high 46 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 47
J. B. Moreton. ftrong hard wood pofts , fix or feven feet high , erected on an eminence contiguous to the boiling- houfe , beneath the centre of which roof three iron rollers are fixed upright and quite clofe together ; each roller is ...
J. B. Moreton. ftrong hard wood pofts , fix or feven feet high , erected on an eminence contiguous to the boiling- houfe , beneath the centre of which roof three iron rollers are fixed upright and quite clofe together ; each roller is ...
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