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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... whereby he will injure his own frame by taking a greater quantity of medicine than usual to remove it , and so introduce an avenue for shumatic pains ( what diffipaced rakes call the gout ) to follow several years aftar , and attend ...
... whereby he will injure his own frame by taking a greater quantity of medicine than usual to remove it , and so introduce an avenue for shumatic pains ( what diffipaced rakes call the gout ) to follow several years aftar , and attend ...
الصفحة 34
... is pleasant to take 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 several instances of people being devoured by Sharks at that.
... is pleasant to take 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 several instances of people being devoured by Sharks at that.
الصفحة 35
several instances of people being devoured by Sharks at that part of the town ; indeed it is very unsafe to bathe in any part of the sea in the West Indies . The houses , though some are tolerable elegant , built of brick or wood ...
several instances of people being devoured by Sharks at that part of the town ; indeed it is very unsafe to bathe in any part of the sea in the West Indies . The houses , though some are tolerable elegant , built of brick or wood ...
الصفحة 38
May and October are commonly the rainy months , at which cime the rains , ( or feasons , as they are called ) set in , and violently fall for several days ; fometimes in rapid corrents , composing innumerable rivers and gullies , and in ...
May and October are commonly the rainy months , at which cime the rains , ( or feasons , as they are called ) set in , and violently fall for several days ; fometimes in rapid corrents , composing innumerable rivers and gullies , and in ...
الصفحة 39
I myself once beheld them trembling all round me , and their rocky stupendous tops precipitating their rugged cliffs ; I saw the sea rise several feet beyond its usual bounds , and swallow up valuable stores and wharfs ; nay , it has ...
I myself once beheld them trembling all round me , and their rocky stupendous tops precipitating their rugged cliffs ; I saw the sea rise several feet beyond its usual bounds , and swallow up valuable stores and wharfs ; nay , it has ...
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