 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1829 - 616 pages
...of these was the most cruel. The whip varied in size. Its handle was of wood, from two to three feet in length, and from an inch and a half to two inches in diameter ; and the thong was from six to eight feet in length, and, at the thickest part, from one-and-a-half... | |
 | Christianity - 1829 - 622 pages
...of these was the most cruel. The whip varied in size. Its handle was of wood, from two to three feet in length, and from an inch and a half to two inches in diameter ; and the thong was from six to eight feet in length, and, at the thickest part, from one-and-a-half... | |
 | Zachary Macaulay - Antislavery movements - 1829 - 518 pages
...handle was of wood, from two to three feet • On some CBtaU-s the practice differed on this point. in length, and from an inch and a half to two inches in diameter; and the thong was from six to eight feet in length, and, at the thickest part, from one and a half... | |
 | 1830 - 862 pages
...Its handle was of wood, from two to three feet * On some estates the practice differed on thif point. in length, and from an inch and a half to two inches in diameter; and the thong was from six to eight feet in length, and, at the thickest part, from one and a half... | |
 | Charles Telfair - Great Britain - 1830 - 296 pages
...of these was the most cruel. The whip varied in size. Its handle was of wood, from two to three feet in length, and from an inch and a half to two inches in diameter; and the thong was from six to eight feet in length, and at the thickest part, from one and a half to... | |
 | Eleanor Parkinson - Baking - 1844 - 174 pages
...lumps. Plantain Bread — is made from the fruit of the plantain tree. This fruit is about a foot long, and from an inch and a half to two inches in diameter, and has a tough skm, within which there is a soft pulp, of a sweet flavour. The fruit is generally... | |
 | James Brown - Forests and forestry - 1851 - 550 pages
...moderately exposed situation, eight hundred feet above the level of the sea, be from eight to ten feet in length, and from an inch and a half to two inches in diameter at the middle. They should, on an average, be worth l^d. each, and in most districts sell very readily... | |
 | James Brown - Forests and forestry - 1861 - 722 pages
...moderately exposed situation, eight hundred feet above the level of the sea, be from eight to ten feet in length, and from an inch and a half to two inches in diameter at the middle. They should, on an average, be worth l£d. each, and in most districts sell very readily... | |
 | Freeman Josiah Bumstead - Gonorrhea - 1861 - 876 pages
...upon the arm just above the elbow-joint, which gave rise to an ulcer three-fourths of an inch in depth and from an inch and a half to two inches in diameter. When seated in the neighborhood of the bones, as upon the scalp or walls of the pharynx or palate,... | |
 | Charles Johnson - Botany - 1861 - 546 pages
...their sheaths more or less inflated. Panicle pale, pyramidal, rather distantly branched, two to five inches in length, and from an inch and a half to two inches or more in breadth at the base. Glumes nearly smooth, often tinged with purple; the upper one... | |
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The instrument with which the punishment of flogging was inflicted consisted either of a whip, or of the split rattan ; and opinions greatly differ, as to which of these was the most cruel. The whip varied in size. Its handle was of wood, from two to... 
