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 27
... fometimes effectually cures . There is a hot bath near Spanish Town which gives immediate ease ; indeed , any hot bath , whilst the patient remains in it , will give ease in like manner . A consumption proceeds from whatever cor- rupts ...
... fometimes effectually cures . There is a hot bath near Spanish Town which gives immediate ease ; indeed , any hot bath , whilst the patient remains in it , will give ease in like manner . A consumption proceeds from whatever cor- rupts ...
الصفحة 38
... fometimes in rapid torrents , com- posing innumerable rivers and gullies , and in some places laying many low plantations under deluges of water , forcing the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their ...
... fometimes in rapid torrents , com- posing innumerable rivers and gullies , and in some places laying many low plantations under deluges of water , forcing the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their ...
الصفحة 39
... fometimes hurricanes , which blast the canes through the air like chaff , tear up the largest trees by the roots , level the strongest stores and houses to the ground , and leave not only towns and plantations , but whole parishes waste ...
... fometimes hurricanes , which blast the canes through the air like chaff , tear up the largest trees by the roots , level the strongest stores and houses to the ground , and leave not only towns and plantations , but whole parishes waste ...
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