The West Indies and the Spanish MainHarper & brothers, 1860 - 381 oldal |
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33. oldal
... hundreds of them clustered . together produce an effect which nothing can surpass . The cotton - tree is almost as beautiful when standing alone . The trunk of this tree grows to a magnificent height , and with magnificent proportions ...
... hundreds of them clustered . together produce an effect which nothing can surpass . The cotton - tree is almost as beautiful when standing alone . The trunk of this tree grows to a magnificent height , and with magnificent proportions ...
47. oldal
... hundred pounds a year , and complaining because in our perverse stupidity we cannot pamper our palates with sufficient variety , it is not open to us to say a word against the luxuries of a West Indian table . We have reached the days ...
... hundred pounds a year , and complaining because in our perverse stupidity we cannot pamper our palates with sufficient variety , it is not open to us to say a word against the luxuries of a West Indian table . We have reached the days ...
66. oldal
... hundred and thirty hogsheads instead of one hundred and ninety . Let the English farmer think of that ; and in realizing the full story , he must imagine that the plenteous food alluded to has been grown on his own ground , and probably ...
... hundred and thirty hogsheads instead of one hundred and ninety . Let the English farmer think of that ; and in realizing the full story , he must imagine that the plenteous food alluded to has been grown on his own ground , and probably ...
78. oldal
... hundred years have produced a population , which is said to amount . to a fifth of that of the whole island of Jamaica , and which probably amounts to much more . Two hundred years with us is a long time ; but it is not so in the ...
... hundred years have produced a population , which is said to amount . to a fifth of that of the whole island of Jamaica , and which probably amounts to much more . Two hundred years with us is a long time ; but it is not so in the ...
96. oldal
... hundred acres has perhaps changed hands half a dozen times in the last fifty years , or the thoroughly mercantile sugar manufacturer of Guiana . He has so many of the characteristics of an English country gentleman that he does not ...
... hundred acres has perhaps changed hands half a dozen times in the last fifty years , or the thoroughly mercantile sugar manufacturer of Guiana . He has so many of the characteristics of an English country gentleman that he does not ...
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