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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... and force her way through seas foaming with madness in almost opposite direction to the winds : to sink unhurt between saline rolling hills , and rise and glide again triumphant over the furious tops of liquid mountains .
... and force her way through seas foaming with madness in almost opposite direction to the winds : to sink unhurt between saline rolling hills , and rise and glide again triumphant over the furious tops of liquid mountains .
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... throughout almost all seasons of the year , and is certainly very unfriendly to European conftitutions , and would be more so were it not for the sea - breeze , which sets in every morning about nine or ten o'clock , increasing as ...
... throughout almost all seasons of the year , and is certainly very unfriendly to European conftitutions , and would be more so were it not for the sea - breeze , which sets in every morning about nine or ten o'clock , increasing as ...
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... and when the hot fit is off , to drink the bark . Samuel for his sores , to bathe them in the decoce tion of limes and cushue leaves . " 1 1 Fevers , agues , dry belly - achs , consumptions , and almost innumerable other diseases ...
... and when the hot fit is off , to drink the bark . Samuel for his sores , to bathe them in the decoce tion of limes and cushue leaves . " 1 1 Fevers , agues , dry belly - achs , consumptions , and almost innumerable other diseases ...
الصفحة 23
... to the sun's almost intolerable heat , and heavy rains , in the months of January and February ; when fainting ' beneath his meridian rays for want of a cooling breeze , I frequently plunged myself into a river or gully , though I ...
... to the sun's almost intolerable heat , and heavy rains , in the months of January and February ; when fainting ' beneath his meridian rays for want of a cooling breeze , I frequently plunged myself into a river or gully , though I ...
الصفحة 29
There are many ways of curing c - ps ; every quack almost prescribes differenily ; and though every one will pretend to cure ir , not one in twenty can do it radically . The following prescription , which I got from an eminent physician ...
There are many ways of curing c - ps ; every quack almost prescribes differenily ; and though every one will pretend to cure ir , not one in twenty can do it radically . The following prescription , which I got from an eminent physician ...
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