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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... most refplendent luminary of heaven , emerging from the azure horizon , gilding the ocean with a glittering hue ; to view the beauteous dolphin giving chase to myriads of flying - fish , promiscuously rifing and fkimming the air like ...
... most refplendent luminary of heaven , emerging from the azure horizon , gilding the ocean with a glittering hue ; to view the beauteous dolphin giving chase to myriads of flying - fish , promiscuously rifing and fkimming the air like ...
الصفحة 11
... most ruftic mind ; but to the man who is contempla- tively 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 ...
... most ruftic mind ; but to the man who is contempla- tively 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 ...
الصفحة 27
... most excru- tiating 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 excru- tiating 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 54
... most careful diftiller through hurry , or neglect of negroes ; but when a mif- . take or error is once committed , a perfon fhould be cautious to avoid a repetition of the like again ; therefore obferve , that when a charge of liquor ...
... most careful diftiller through hurry , or neglect of negroes ; but when a mif- . take or error is once committed , a perfon fhould be cautious to avoid a repetition of the like again ; therefore obferve , that when a charge of liquor ...
الصفحة 59
... most fandy deferts or mountains ; the method of planting it is as follows : -The ground being prepared by clear- ing it of fhrubbery and grafs against the first of May , and holed at every three or four feet diftance , as foon as the ...
... most fandy deferts or mountains ; the method of planting it is as follows : -The ground being prepared by clear- ing it of fhrubbery and grafs against the first of May , and holed at every three or four feet diftance , as foon as the ...
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