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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J. B. Moreton. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . MY DEAR FRIEND ! Α SI understand you intend to go shortly to Jamaica , and I prefume an entire stranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , I think it a ...
J. B. Moreton. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . MY DEAR FRIEND ! Α SI understand you intend to go shortly to Jamaica , and I prefume an entire stranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , I think it a ...
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... Though I am naturally fond of mirth and fociety , yet I often like retirement , and have often enjoyed the greatest rapture of mind when wrapped B 1 1 1 I wrapped in dear delightful folitude , amidst the rocky grottos 40 MANNERS AND ...
... Though I am naturally fond of mirth and fociety , yet I often like retirement , and have often enjoyed the greatest rapture of mind when wrapped B 1 1 1 I wrapped in dear delightful folitude , amidst the rocky grottos 40 MANNERS AND ...
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J. B. Moreton. wrapped in dear delightful folitude , amidst the rocky grottos of the mountains , I felt a pleasing fatisfaction , traversing with a gun the lonely and unfrequented fhades of the woods . 66 These deep folitudes and awful ...
J. B. Moreton. wrapped in dear delightful folitude , amidst the rocky grottos of the mountains , I felt a pleasing fatisfaction , traversing with a gun the lonely and unfrequented fhades of the woods . 66 These deep folitudes and awful ...
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... Dear Mofes , this chance is most pleasing to me , To fend the contents of my mind unto thee ; On board of the Neptune , a paffage I took , With keen cunning notions of having good - look . My flender adventure was prudently bought , And ...
... Dear Mofes , this chance is most pleasing to me , To fend the contents of my mind unto thee ; On board of the Neptune , a paffage I took , With keen cunning notions of having good - look . My flender adventure was prudently bought , And ...
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... Dear Sir , I was favoured with yours of the 6th of April , and offerve the contents . The prefent ferves to cover bill of lading for fixty hogfheads of Mufcovado fugar from your Clarendon - hall eftate , per the Eliza , Captain Donally ...
... Dear Sir , I was favoured with yours of the 6th of April , and offerve the contents . The prefent ferves to cover bill of lading for fixty hogfheads of Mufcovado fugar from your Clarendon - hall eftate , per the Eliza , Captain Donally ...
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