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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الصفحة 38
... forcing the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their flaves and live ftock , to take shelter in the mountains . ! 1 H mountains until the waters abate ; these heavy rains are 38 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... forcing the inhabitants , like the Egyptians at the overflowing of the Nile , with their flaves and live ftock , to take shelter in the mountains . ! 1 H mountains until the waters abate ; these heavy rains are 38 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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 ...
الصفحة 41
66 These deep folitudes and awful cells , " Where heav'nly penfive contemplation dwells , " And ever - mufing melancholy reigns . " The trees are amazing high , appearing to touch the cloud - capt towers , and are always vocal with the ...
66 These deep folitudes and awful cells , " Where heav'nly penfive contemplation dwells , " And ever - mufing melancholy reigns . " The trees are amazing high , appearing to touch the cloud - capt towers , and are always vocal with the ...
الصفحة 47
... and three feet and a half in length , the rhind or fhell about one inch and a quarter thick ; these rollers being filled with hard wood , and coged all round , and fupported on the mill bed , about eighteen inches from the ground ...
... and three feet and a half in length , the rhind or fhell about one inch and a quarter thick ; these rollers being filled with hard wood , and coged all round , and fupported on the mill bed , about eighteen inches from the ground ...
الصفحة 65
These Chrift - killing dogs exert every base means to impofe upon Chriftians ; even their children are trained to villainy , keep pedling stands in the ftreets from morning until night , and are keen , cunning little fharpers .
These Chrift - killing dogs exert every base means to impofe upon Chriftians ; even their children are trained to villainy , keep pedling stands in the ftreets from morning until night , and are keen , cunning little fharpers .
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