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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S I understand you intend to go shortly to Jamaica , and I presume an entire stranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , I think it a duty incumbent on me to give you some instructions and advice respecting both ...
S I understand you intend to go shortly to Jamaica , and I presume an entire stranger to the nature of that climate and the people thereof , I think it a duty incumbent on me to give you some instructions and advice respecting both ...
الصفحة 10
... your mind will be impressed with ideas of a different nature , the jarring elements will fill your soul with wonder and terror ! What a beautiful and surprising structure is a well built Thip ! Wherein we can swiftly and securely ...
... your mind will be impressed with ideas of a different nature , the jarring elements will fill your soul with wonder and terror ! What a beautiful and surprising structure is a well built Thip ! Wherein we can swiftly and securely ...
الصفحة 18
I do not mean to advise you to employ a doctor on every night mark of indisposition ; I would wish you to be your own doctor in simple cases , and to study the nature of your constitucion ; for the generality of West - India doctors are ...
I do not mean to advise you to employ a doctor on every night mark of indisposition ; I would wish you to be your own doctor in simple cases , and to study the nature of your constitucion ; for the generality of West - India doctors are ...
الصفحة 19
The following odd relation concerning myself , will convince you further of the nature of quacks : When I was a book - keeper in Clarendon , I was amicted with a fever , till reduced to an insensible { keleton ; during which time Tartar ...
The following odd relation concerning myself , will convince you further of the nature of quacks : When I was a book - keeper in Clarendon , I was amicted with a fever , till reduced to an insensible { keleton ; during which time Tartar ...
الصفحة 27
It is cured with great difficulty even in its most simple stage ; but when confirmed , hardly ever ; a hot climate is best for those who are of a consumptive nature ; mercurial purgatives are of effential service , nor should the ...
It is cured with great difficulty even in its most simple stage ; but when confirmed , hardly ever ; a hot climate is best for those who are of a consumptive nature ; mercurial purgatives are of effential service , nor should the ...
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