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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... of Kingston , and the latter of Spanish - town , whom you will find to be skilful
and worthy characters ; they have protracted the days of thousands . What
numbers of counterfeit , or spurious creatures of hat profession you will find
dispersed all ...
... of Kingston , and the latter of Spanish - town , whom you will find to be skilful
and worthy characters ; they have protracted the days of thousands . What
numbers of counterfeit , or spurious creatures of hat profession you will find
dispersed all ...
الصفحة 23
When I quitted the severe toils of a planter's life , and lived regular in town , I
found the climate to agree tolerably well with me , and I was as active as I am
now , thank God ; therefore strenuously recommend it to you to avoid heats and
colds ...
When I quitted the severe toils of a planter's life , and lived regular in town , I
found the climate to agree tolerably well with me , and I was as active as I am
now , thank God ; therefore strenuously recommend it to you to avoid heats and
colds ...
الصفحة 27
There is a hot bath near Spanish Town which gives immediate ease ; indeed ,
any hot bath , whilst the patient remains in it , will give ease in like manner . A
consumption proceeds from whatever corrupts the blood , or obstructs the
circulation ...
There is a hot bath near Spanish Town which gives immediate ease ; indeed ,
any hot bath , whilst the patient remains in it , will give ease in like manner . A
consumption proceeds from whatever corrupts the blood , or obstructs the
circulation ...
الصفحة 33
There are about forty towns and villages , amongst which none are worthy of note
but Kingston , Saint Jago de la Vega , vulgarly called Spanish Town , Port Royal ,
and Montego Bay , the rest hardly deserve the name of villages , only small ...
There are about forty towns and villages , amongst which none are worthy of note
but Kingston , Saint Jago de la Vega , vulgarly called Spanish Town , Port Royal ,
and Montego Bay , the rest hardly deserve the name of villages , only small ...
الصفحة 34
In the morning early it is pleasant to take a walk to Putney Lodge , which lies at
the east end of the town ; but it is dangerous to bathe in the fea , as many young
men do , as there have been feveral several instances of people being devoured
...
In the morning early it is pleasant to take a walk to Putney Lodge , which lies at
the east end of the town ; but it is dangerous to bathe in the fea , as many young
men do , as there have been feveral several instances of people being devoured
...
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