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 29
... whereby he will injure his own frame by taking a greater quantity of medicine than usual to remove it , and fo introduce an avenue for rhumatic pains ( what diffipated rakes call the gout ) to follow feveral years aftar , and attend ...
... whereby he will injure his own frame by taking a greater quantity of medicine than usual to remove it , and fo introduce an avenue for rhumatic pains ( what diffipated rakes call the gout ) to follow feveral years aftar , and attend ...
الصفحة 34
... a walk to Putney Lodge , which lies at the east end of the town ; but it is dangerous to bathe in the fea , as many young men do , as there have been feveral 34 • 1 . 1 1 feveral inftances of people being devoured by sharks at that.
... a walk to Putney Lodge , which lies at the east end of the town ; but it is dangerous to bathe in the fea , as many young men do , as there have been feveral 34 • 1 . 1 1 feveral inftances of people being devoured by sharks at that.
الصفحة 35
feveral inftances of people being devoured by sharks at that part of the town ; indeed it is very unfafe to bathe in any part of the sea in the West Indies . The houses , though fome are tolerable elegant , built of brick or wood ...
feveral inftances of people being devoured by sharks at that part of the town ; indeed it is very unfafe to bathe in any part of the sea in the West Indies . The houses , though fome are tolerable elegant , built of brick or wood ...
الصفحة 38
May and October are commonly the rainy months , at which time the rains , ( or feasons , as they are called ) fet in , and violently fall for feveral days ; fometimes in rapid torrents , com → pofing innumerable rivers and gullies ...
May and October are commonly the rainy months , at which time the rains , ( or feasons , as they are called ) fet in , and violently fall for feveral days ; fometimes in rapid torrents , com → pofing innumerable rivers and gullies ...
الصفحة 44
... requires vaft labour and pains ; there must be cattle penns contiguous to every piece intended for holing , and a number of negroes , cattle , and wanes , employed for feveral weeks , carrying cane tops , grafs and vines to them .
... requires vaft labour and pains ; there must be cattle penns contiguous to every piece intended for holing , and a number of negroes , cattle , and wanes , employed for feveral weeks , carrying cane tops , grafs and vines to them .
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