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 53
At the beginning of crop , probably there may not be good lees remaining since the last year , in which case there must be a greater quantity of skimmings than usual set ; if there are no molasses , feventy per cent . of skimmings ...
At the beginning of crop , probably there may not be good lees remaining since the last year , in which case there must be a greater quantity of skimmings than usual set ; if there are no molasses , feventy per cent . of skimmings ...
الصفحة 55
... confequently , let it be ever so large , that is eight per cent .; again , if skimmings be put in until it is thirty - eight parts deep , that is thirty per cent . of skimmings ; and if lees be put in till it is sixtyeight parts ...
... confequently , let it be ever so large , that is eight per cent .; again , if skimmings be put in until it is thirty - eight parts deep , that is thirty per cent . of skimmings ; and if lees be put in till it is sixtyeight parts ...
الصفحة 57
which sum of 26,000l . at 8 per cent , interest is 20801 . which , added to the annual expence , is 28801 . Now , supposing the estate to be well managed , and to make upon an average one hundred and fixty hogsheads of good Muscovado ...
which sum of 26,000l . at 8 per cent , interest is 20801 . which , added to the annual expence , is 28801 . Now , supposing the estate to be well managed , and to make upon an average one hundred and fixty hogsheads of good Muscovado ...
الصفحة 64
The markets are very precarious ; I have known salt provisions to sell at one hundred and fifty per cent , profit one week , and the same fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards for less than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
The markets are very precarious ; I have known salt provisions to sell at one hundred and fifty per cent , profit one week , and the same fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards for less than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 67
... at least , at five hundred per cent . The first of December , I think , was the day , That I set off from Charlestown for Cape Françoise , In company with monsieurs Quaver and Quiver , ( Two men of fortune , most noble and clever ) ...
... at least , at five hundred per cent . The first of December , I think , was the day , That I set off from Charlestown for Cape Françoise , In company with monsieurs Quaver and Quiver , ( Two men of fortune , most noble and clever ) ...
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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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