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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... follow : " This injur'd science , and commence Apollo . " To count them all would fail the poet's lungs , " It asks an hundred mouths , an hundred tongues . " AIR . My Friend and Pitcher . How happy is the doctor's fate In that fweet ...
... follow : " This injur'd science , and commence Apollo . " To count them all would fail the poet's lungs , " It asks an hundred mouths , an hundred tongues . " AIR . My Friend and Pitcher . How happy is the doctor's fate In that fweet ...
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... follow ; when a fever is intermittant , and attended with an ague , it is not thought dangerous ; the cure chiefly depends upon emetics and purges , with plenty of bark taken when the hot fit is over . Proper attendance is effentially ...
... follow ; when a fever is intermittant , and attended with an ague , it is not thought dangerous ; the cure chiefly depends upon emetics and purges , with plenty of bark taken when the hot fit is over . Proper attendance is effentially ...
الصفحة 29
... follow several years aftar , and attend him to his last hours : nor should he , if possible , enter- tain even one amorous thought the whole time , nor do any thing to create defire or cause crections . A cap is often attended with a ...
... follow several years aftar , and attend him to his last hours : nor should he , if possible , enter- tain even one amorous thought the whole time , nor do any thing to create defire or cause crections . A cap is often attended with a ...
الصفحة 30
... follows : The first night you are to take the vomit by fwallowing a table spoonful every ten minutes by a watch until it operates , then to work it off with large and repeated draughts of luke - warm water , until you puke seven or ...
... follows : The first night you are to take the vomit by fwallowing a table spoonful every ten minutes by a watch until it operates , then to work it off with large and repeated draughts of luke - warm water , until you puke seven or ...
الصفحة 42
... follows : Beef 7'd . per lb. mutton gd . pork 5d . fish 5d . a turkey or goose 13s . or 14s . and a good fowl 3s . or 4s . There are regular and plentiful markets held in all the towns , particularly in Kingstown , daily ; the butchers ...
... follows : Beef 7'd . per lb. mutton gd . pork 5d . fish 5d . a turkey or goose 13s . or 14s . and a good fowl 3s . or 4s . There are regular and plentiful markets held in all the towns , particularly in Kingstown , daily ; the butchers ...
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