Authentic History of the English West Indies: With the Manners and Customs of the Free Inhabitants, Including Their Civil and Criminal Laws, Establishments, &c. : a Description of the Climate, Buildings, Towns, & Sea Ports : with the Condition and Treatment of the Negroes : an Account of the Lands in Cultivation, and the Natural & Vegetable Productions, Exports, &cPrinted, and sold, for the author, by Dean and Munday, 1810 - 64 頁 |
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第 37 頁 - ... to help the delivery. For this purpose, the crab has no sooner reached the shore, than it eagerly goes to the edge of the water, and lets the waves wash over its body two or three times.
第 13 頁 - These, compared with the autumnal rains, may be said to be gentle showers. They come from the south, and commonly fall every day about noon, and break up with thunder-storms; creating a bright and beautiful verdure, and a rapid and luxuriant vegetation.
第 16 頁 - Such is the foreground of the picture. As the land rises towards the centre of the island, the eye, passing over the beauties that I have recounted, is attracted by a boundless amphitheatre of wood ; Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar; and branching palm; MILTON.
第 19 頁 - The island is well watered. There are about 100 rivers, which take their rise in the mountains, and run, commonly with great rapidity, to the sea, on both sides of the island. None of them are navigable, except for boats. Black River is the deepest, and has the greatest current.
第 44 頁 - Ostins or Charles town, St. James's (formerly called The Hole), and Speight's town. Bridge town, the capital, before it was destroyed by the fires of 1766, consisted of about fifteen hundred houses, which were mostly built of brick ; and it is still the seat of government, and may be called the chief residence of the governor, who is provided with a country villa called Pilgrims, situated within a mile of it: his salary was raised by...
第 58 頁 - This island contains 43,726 acres, of which about 17,000 acres are appropriated to the growth of sugar, and 4000 to pasturage. As sugar is the only commodity of any consequence that is raised, except the necessary articles of food, and a little cotton, it is probable that nearly one half of the whole island is unfit for cultivation. The interior part of the country consists, indeed, of many rugged precipices and barren mountains. Of these the loftiest is mount Misery (evidently an extinguished volcano),...
第 67 頁 - ... one a black mould on a substratum of clay, which is naturally rich, and when not checked by excessive droughts, to which Antigua is particularly subject, very productive. The other is a stiff clay on a substratum of marl. It is much less fertile than the former, and abounds with an inirradicable kind of grass, in such a manner, that many estates consisting of that kind of soil, which were once very profitable, are now so impoverished and overgrown with this sort of grass, as either to be converted...
第 20 頁 - ... pea, causing no further pain than a disagreeable itching. In process of time, its operation appears in the form of a small bladder, in which are deposited thousands of eggs, or nits, and which, if it breaks, produce so many young chigoes...
第 44 頁 - It is about twenty-one miles in length, and fourteen in breadth, and contains 106,470 acres of land, most of which is under cultivation. The soil in the low lands is black, somewhat reddish in the shallow parts ; on the hills of a chalky marl, and near the sea generally sandy. Of this variety of soil, the black mould is best suited for the cultivation of the cane, and, with the aid of manure, has given as great returns of sugar, in favourable seasons., as any in the West Indies, the prime lands of...
第 13 頁 - ... late in the evening,) the heat is scarcely supportable ; but no sooner is the influence felt of this refreshing wind, than all nature revives, and the climate in the shade becomes not only very tolerable, but pleasant. The thermometer now varies but little in the whole twenty-four hours ; its medium near the coast may be stated at about 80°.