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 39
... several feet beyond its ufual bounds , and swallow up valuable ftores and wharfs ; nay , it has been remarked , that the earth opened her greedy womb , fwallowed up whole mountains , filled up the courfe of rivers , and caufed rivers to ...
... several feet beyond its ufual bounds , and swallow up valuable ftores and wharfs ; nay , it has been remarked , that the earth opened her greedy womb , fwallowed up whole mountains , filled up the courfe of rivers , and caufed rivers to ...
الصفحة 62
... several times ; but how great was my furprize when a mufket ball came whistling by my ears ; a negroe came running to me , and faid , " Maffa will shoot you ' tone dead if you no go avey ' rectly . " Having a letter of introduction to ...
... several times ; but how great was my furprize when a mufket ball came whistling by my ears ; a negroe came running to me , and faid , " Maffa will shoot you ' tone dead if you no go avey ' rectly . " Having a letter of introduction to ...
الصفحة 67
... several other paffengers ; a copy of the Jews letter to his friend having fallen in my way , I tranflated it as follows : · Dear Mofes , this chance is moft pleafing to me , To fend the contents of my mind unto thee ; On board of the ...
... several other paffengers ; a copy of the Jews letter to his friend having fallen in my way , I tranflated it as follows : · Dear Mofes , this chance is moft pleafing to me , To fend the contents of my mind unto thee ; On board of the ...
الصفحة 70
... several years ; or he brings it to fale , after having taken the chiefeft and choiceft of the effects at the va- luation , and purchases it , and then makes no remittance at all for four or five years , fo that the crops , or intereft ...
... several years ; or he brings it to fale , after having taken the chiefeft and choiceft of the effects at the va- luation , and purchases it , and then makes no remittance at all for four or five years , fo that the crops , or intereft ...
الصفحة 115
... several times little Etnas . There were a variety of sweetmeats , and the choiceft fruit the island produced ; also , wines , cordials , & c . & c . The plate on a fideboard brufhed moft bright , not not fullied with the pureft water ...
... several times little Etnas . There were a variety of sweetmeats , and the choiceft fruit the island produced ; also , wines , cordials , & c . & c . The plate on a fideboard brufhed moft bright , not not fullied with the pureft water ...
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