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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الصفحة 21
... he is looked upon as an Efculapeus of the times by the managers and overseers , and gets the quackery of them and their friends also , so that it never costs him any thing for board , washing and lodging , corn , or grafs .
... he is looked upon as an Efculapeus of the times by the managers and overseers , and gets the quackery of them and their friends also , so that it never costs him any thing for board , washing and lodging , corn , or grafs .
الصفحة 32
Their puny offspring fhare difeafe also , And the infection catch in embryo ! Thus far I have faid of difeafes peculiar to the Weft Indies , and of phyfic , though I know nothing of the latter but what I experienced from obfervations on ...
Their puny offspring fhare difeafe also , And the infection catch in embryo ! Thus far I have faid of difeafes peculiar to the Weft Indies , and of phyfic , though I know nothing of the latter but what I experienced from obfervations on ...
الصفحة 34
The theatre is a little , mean , narrow , close , fabrick ; there is also another public building , called Ranelagh House , in which ladies and gentlemen hold publick balls and affemblies ; there are alfo two free mafon lodges ...
The theatre is a little , mean , narrow , close , fabrick ; there is also another public building , called Ranelagh House , in which ladies and gentlemen hold publick balls and affemblies ; there are alfo two free mafon lodges ...
الصفحة 40
The woods yield choice timber , fit for almost all uses ; fuch as locuft , maftic , bull - tree , dogwood , brafilitto , mahogany and cedars , as huge and lofty as the cedars of Lebanon ; also lignumvitæ , which yields that valuable ...
The woods yield choice timber , fit for almost all uses ; fuch as locuft , maftic , bull - tree , dogwood , brafilitto , mahogany and cedars , as huge and lofty as the cedars of Lebanon ; also lignumvitæ , which yields that valuable ...
الصفحة 85
... which induced him to dispose of part of the fugars and rum privately , also , the plantation stock and ftores , until at length these matters were detected , and poor Little Confequence was disbanded in difgrace !
... which induced him to dispose of part of the fugars and rum privately , also , the plantation stock and ftores , until at length these matters were detected , and poor Little Confequence was disbanded in difgrace !
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