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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الصفحة 39
... several feet beyond its usual bounds , and swallow up valuable ftores and wharfs ; nay , it has been remarked , that the earth opened her greedy womb , fwallowed up whole mountains , filled up the courfe of rivers , and caufed rivers to ...
... several feet beyond its usual bounds , and swallow up valuable ftores and wharfs ; nay , it has been remarked , that the earth opened her greedy womb , fwallowed up whole mountains , filled up the courfe of rivers , and caufed rivers to ...
الصفحة 67
... several other paffengers ; a copy of the Jews letter to his friend having fallen in my way , I tranflated it as follows : " Dear Mofes , this chance is most pleasing to me , To fend the contents of my mind unto thee ; On board of the ...
... several other paffengers ; a copy of the Jews letter to his friend having fallen in my way , I tranflated it as follows : " Dear Mofes , this chance is most pleasing to me , To fend the contents of my mind unto thee ; On board of the ...
الصفحة 115
... several times little tnas . There were a variety of sweetmeats , and the choiceft fruit the inland produced ; alfo , wines , cordials , & c . & c . The plate on a fideboard brushed moft bright , not • not fullied with the pureft water ...
... several times little tnas . There were a variety of sweetmeats , and the choiceft fruit the inland produced ; alfo , wines , cordials , & c . & c . The plate on a fideboard brushed moft bright , not • not fullied with the pureft water ...
الصفحة 135
... several of the English , and tired the rest , a treaty of peace was concluded upon ; fince which time they have been loyal fubjects . Different parties of them traverse the island , and go armed ; they take up runaway negroes and bring ...
... several of the English , and tired the rest , a treaty of peace was concluded upon ; fince which time they have been loyal fubjects . Different parties of them traverse the island , and go armed ; they take up runaway negroes and bring ...
الصفحة 136
... several of these poor wretches , when they get fickly on the Guinea coaft , are thrown over - board alive to fave infurance ; and from their being ftowed fo close together , about fixteen thousand are computed to die during their voyage ...
... several of these poor wretches , when they get fickly on the Guinea coaft , are thrown over - board alive to fave infurance ; and from their being ftowed fo close together , about fixteen thousand are computed to die during their voyage ...
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