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 23
When I quitted the severe toils of a planter's life , and lived regular in town , I found the climate to agree tolerably well with me , and I was as active as I am now , thank God ; therefore strenuously recommend it to you to avoid ...
When I quitted the severe toils of a planter's life , and lived regular in town , I found the climate to agree tolerably well with me , and I was as active as I am now , thank God ; therefore strenuously recommend it to you to avoid ...
الصفحة 27
There is a hot bath near Spanish Town which gives immediate ease ; indeed , any hot bath , whilst the patient remains in it , will give ease in like manner . A consumption proceeds from whatever cora rupts the blood , or obstructs the ...
There is a hot bath near Spanish Town which gives immediate ease ; indeed , any hot bath , whilst the patient remains in it , will give ease in like manner . A consumption proceeds from whatever cora rupts the blood , or obstructs the ...
الصفحة 33
There are about farty towns and villages , amongst which none are worthy of note but Kingston , Saint Jago de la Vega , vulgarly called Spanish Town , Port Royal , and Montego Bay , the rest hardly deserve the name of villages ...
There are about farty towns and villages , amongst which none are worthy of note but Kingston , Saint Jago de la Vega , vulgarly called Spanish Town , Port Royal , and Montego Bay , the rest hardly deserve the name of villages ...
الصفحة 34
... alongside the wharfs ; the church , barrack , and theatre , stand on a large airy plain , on that end of the town called the Parade , leading to Spanish Town , and Liquanea ; the church is a tolerable elegant building ; it is a pity ...
... alongside the wharfs ; the church , barrack , and theatre , stand on a large airy plain , on that end of the town called the Parade , leading to Spanish Town , and Liquanea ; the church is a tolerable elegant building ; it is a pity ...
الصفحة 35
several instances of people being devoured by sharks at chat part of the town ; indeed it is very unsafe to bathe in any part of the sea in the Welt Indies . The houses , though some are tolerable elegant , built of brick or wood ...
several instances of people being devoured by sharks at chat part of the town ; indeed it is very unsafe to bathe in any part of the sea in the Welt Indies . The houses , though some are tolerable elegant , built of brick or wood ...
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| العنوان | 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 |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | المكتبة البريطانية |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 21 تشرين الأول (أكتوبر) 2013 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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