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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... deep , and visit the remoteft quarters of the globe . " Eye natures walks , fhoot folly as it flies , " And catch the manners living as they rife . " It , It was always a most pleasing satisfaction to me 10 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... deep , and visit the remoteft quarters of the globe . " Eye natures walks , fhoot folly as it flies , " And catch the manners living as they rife . " It , It was always a most pleasing satisfaction to me 10 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 11
... most ruftic mind ; but to the man who is contemplatively inclined , they produce the most fublime fenfations , and are fources of extreme delight ; the changes and variety of colours of the waters , and the sparkling particles like fire ...
... most ruftic mind ; but to the man who is contemplatively inclined , they produce the most fublime fenfations , and are fources of extreme delight ; the changes and variety of colours of the waters , and the sparkling particles like fire ...
الصفحة 27
... most excrutiating torture ; it is impoffible to conceive the extreme pain and agony the patient fuffers in one hour : nothing but the pains of hell can equal it . Caftor oil , which grows upon a fhrub in the island , is the best ...
... most excrutiating torture ; it is impoffible to conceive the extreme pain and agony the patient fuffers in one hour : nothing but the pains of hell can equal it . Caftor oil , which grows upon a fhrub in the island , is the best ...
الصفحة 38
... most confiderable of which are Mina and Cobre ; when it rains heavy thofe fwell to an amazing height ; the 2d of October 1780 , when the town of Savana - la - Mar , and the whole county of Cornwall , were almost destroyed by an ...
... most confiderable of which are Mina and Cobre ; when it rains heavy thofe fwell to an amazing height ; the 2d of October 1780 , when the town of Savana - la - Mar , and the whole county of Cornwall , were almost destroyed by an ...
الصفحة 41
... most charmingly through the ears . The woods afford fhelter for vaft numbers of wild cattle and fwine , and fome deer : I have fomethes fhot a fat cattle of this kind , and frequently wild hogs ; the latter are excellent when barbacued ...
... most charmingly through the ears . The woods afford fhelter for vaft numbers of wild cattle and fwine , and fome deer : I have fomethes fhot a fat cattle of this kind , and frequently wild hogs ; the latter are excellent when barbacued ...
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