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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الصفحة 14
... wish for . I took a ride to the English Conful's , which is a mile from town , where he has an elegant rural feat ; the country is beautifully variegated with vineyards , cafcades , and limpid rivulèts , On 1 On paffing the tropic of ...
... wish for . I took a ride to the English Conful's , which is a mile from town , where he has an elegant rural feat ; the country is beautifully variegated with vineyards , cafcades , and limpid rivulèts , On 1 On paffing the tropic of ...
الصفحة 15
... wish to give a bottle amongst them , let it be done after fome Tevere toil , or bad weather , having previously got the confent of the captain , or mate , leaft they get drunk and neglect their duty , and you should be blamed . I love ...
... wish to give a bottle amongst them , let it be done after fome Tevere toil , or bad weather , having previously got the confent of the captain , or mate , leaft they get drunk and neglect their duty , and you should be blamed . I love ...
الصفحة 17
... wish'd he had gone there , And fhook his facred wand , O'er all the ifle , and in the air , And blefs'd both air and land . ' Till not a pois'nous fpiteful thing Above the earth had rang'd , And vile mufquittoes loft its fting , And ...
... wish'd he had gone there , And fhook his facred wand , O'er all the ifle , and in the air , And blefs'd both air and land . ' Till not a pois'nous fpiteful thing Above the earth had rang'd , And vile mufquittoes loft its fting , And ...
الصفحة 18
... wish you to be your own doctor in fimple cafes , and to ftudy the nature of your conftitution ; for the generality of Weft - India doctors are not only very exorbitant in their charges , but what is ftill worfe , they are ignorant ...
... wish you to be your own doctor in fimple cafes , and to ftudy the nature of your conftitution ; for the generality of Weft - India doctors are not only very exorbitant in their charges , but what is ftill worfe , they are ignorant ...
الصفحة 24
... wish to enjoy the pleasure and benefit of bathing , and bracing your limbs in a cold - bath , chuse a proper clean place in a river that is free from aligators , and go into it very early in the morning , when free from the prickly heat ...
... wish to enjoy the pleasure and benefit of bathing , and bracing your limbs in a cold - bath , chuse a proper clean place in a river that is free from aligators , and go into it very early in the morning , when free from the prickly heat ...
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