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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... These awful and tremendous dispensations of Providence frequently happen , not only in Jamaica , but all over the West Indies ; but when hurricanes are attended with earthquakes , the vallies shake , and the mountains nod . I myself ...
... These awful and tremendous dispensations of Providence frequently happen , not only in Jamaica , but all over the West Indies ; but when hurricanes are attended with earthquakes , the vallies shake , and the mountains nod . I myself ...
الصفحة 41
... These deep folitudes and awful cells , " Where heav'nly pensive contemplation dwells , " And ever - musing melancholy reigns . " 1 The trees are amazing high , appearing to touch the cloud - capt towers , and are always vocal with the ...
... These deep folitudes and awful cells , " Where heav'nly pensive contemplation dwells , " And ever - musing melancholy reigns . " 1 The trees are amazing high , appearing to touch the cloud - capt towers , and are always vocal with the ...
الصفحة 46
... these , and many other matters , are not con- fidered of and prepared in time , if the canes are ripe , and dry weather ensues , they will turn red , or ( as they say ) get burnt ; after which , though they must be cut to clear the ...
... these , and many other matters , are not con- fidered of and prepared in time , if the canes are ripe , and dry weather ensues , they will turn red , or ( as they say ) get burnt ; after which , though they must be cut to clear the ...
الصفحة 47
... these rollers being filled with hard wood , and coged all round , and supported on the mill bed , about eighteen inches from the ground , on small pieces of metal about the fize and shape of whipping - tops , called capouses ; the main ...
... these rollers being filled with hard wood , and coged all round , and supported on the mill bed , about eighteen inches from the ground , on small pieces of metal about the fize and shape of whipping - tops , called capouses ; the main ...
الصفحة 49
... these , without expofing his conftitution to the menial , toilsome , and painful drudgeries of an overseer's life , for three , four , or five years : He may attempt it , but how infignificant and auk- ward must a man appear , who ...
... these , without expofing his conftitution to the menial , toilsome , and painful drudgeries of an overseer's life , for three , four , or five years : He may attempt it , but how infignificant and auk- ward must a man appear , who ...
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