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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... of extreme delight ; the changes and variety of colours of the waters , and the sparkling particles like fire often attracted my attention ; fometimes I have been almost induced to think I was failing through a flaming phosphorus .
... of extreme delight ; the changes and variety of colours of the waters , and the sparkling particles like fire often attracted my attention ; fometimes I have been almost induced to think I was failing through a flaming phosphorus .
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... fometime after , a low , fat , fwarthy man , who could speak a little broken English , accompanied by two curious ill - looking fellows , yellow , tall and meagre , with black ragged coats and gold lace hats , fmall fwords , & c .
... fometime after , a low , fat , fwarthy man , who could speak a little broken English , accompanied by two curious ill - looking fellows , yellow , tall and meagre , with black ragged coats and gold lace hats , fmall fwords , & c .
الصفحة 27
Caftor oil , which grows upon a fhrub in the island , is the best medicine in this cafe ; it fometimes effectually cures . There is a hot bath near Spanish Town which gives immediate ease ; indeed , any hot bath , whilst the patient ...
Caftor oil , which grows upon a fhrub in the island , is the best medicine in this cafe ; it fometimes effectually cures . There is a hot bath near Spanish Town which gives immediate ease ; indeed , any hot bath , whilst the patient ...
الصفحة 38
May and October are commonly the rainy months , at which time the rains , ( or feasons , as they are called ) fet in , and violently fall for feveral days ; fometimes in rapid torrents , com → pofing innumerable rivers and gullies ...
May and October are commonly the rainy months , at which time the rains , ( or feasons , as they are called ) fet in , and violently fall for feveral days ; fometimes in rapid torrents , com → pofing innumerable rivers and gullies ...
الصفحة 39
mountains until the waters abate ; these heavy rains are commonly attended with dreadful thunder and lightning , and fometimes hurricanes , which blast the canes through the air like chaff , tear up the largest trees by the roots ...
mountains until the waters abate ; these heavy rains are commonly attended with dreadful thunder and lightning , and fometimes hurricanes , which blast the canes through the air like chaff , tear up the largest trees by the roots ...
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| العنوان | 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 Eighteenth century 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, J. B. Moreton |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | جامعة أوكسفورد |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 8 أيار (مايو) 2009 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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