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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Wherein we can swiftly and securely travel in defiance of the winds and waves , over the most dreadful monsters of the deep , and visit the remotest quarters of the globe . 1 “ Eye natures walks , shoot folly as it lies , “ And catch ...
Wherein we can swiftly and securely travel in defiance of the winds and waves , over the most dreadful monsters of the deep , and visit the remotest quarters of the globe . 1 “ Eye natures walks , shoot folly as it lies , “ And catch ...
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It was always a most pleasing satisfaction to me when in one of those floating habitations , in the midst of seeming danger , thinking momently she would overset , to find her steadily return to her original position , and force her way ...
It was always a most pleasing satisfaction to me when in one of those floating habitations , in the midst of seeming danger , thinking momently she would overset , to find her steadily return to her original position , and force her way ...
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Of all the diseases poor mortals are subject to , dry belly - achs are attended with the most excrutiating torture ; it is impossible to conceive the extreme pain and agony the patient suffers in one hour : nothing but the pains of hell ...
Of all the diseases poor mortals are subject to , dry belly - achs are attended with the most excrutiating torture ; it is impossible to conceive the extreme pain and agony the patient suffers in one hour : nothing but the pains of hell ...
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There are more than one hundred rivers in Jamaica , the most considerable of which are Mina and Cobre ; when it rains heavy those swell to an amazing height ; the ad of October 1780 , when the town of Savana - la - Mar , and the whole ...
There are more than one hundred rivers in Jamaica , the most considerable of which are Mina and Cobre ; when it rains heavy those swell to an amazing height ; the ad of October 1780 , when the town of Savana - la - Mar , and the whole ...
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... and are always vocal with the music of variety of birds , particularly parrots , paroquets , wood - peckers , and doves of various kinds : the mournful cooing of the latter thrills most charmingly through the ears .
... and are always vocal with the music of variety of birds , particularly parrots , paroquets , wood - peckers , and doves of various kinds : the mournful cooing of the latter thrills most charmingly through the ears .
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