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 EditionJ. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 - 192 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 46
... confidered of and prepared in time , if the canes are ripe , and dry weather enfues , they will turn red , or ( as they fay ) get burnt ; after which , though they must be cut to clear the field , they are not worth the expence of ...
... confidered of and prepared in time , if the canes are ripe , and dry weather enfues , they will turn red , or ( as they fay ) get burnt ; after which , though they must be cut to clear the field , they are not worth the expence of ...
الصفحة 58
... confidered as defpicable objects for enterprizing adventurers to hunt after , nor would any man accept the management of one who had any hopes of preferment on fugar plantations , because the falaries and accommodations were equally ...
... confidered as defpicable objects for enterprizing adventurers to hunt after , nor would any man accept the management of one who had any hopes of preferment on fugar plantations , because the falaries and accommodations were equally ...
الصفحة 59
... confidered a good stock , and amount to 6520l .; twenty negroes , at 401. each ; the manager's house and stores , ftables , fhades , and penes , fuppofe to coft 2500l . all which added , is 98201 .; but fuppofing the whole to coft ...
... confidered a good stock , and amount to 6520l .; twenty negroes , at 401. each ; the manager's house and stores , ftables , fhades , and penes , fuppofe to coft 2500l . all which added , is 98201 .; but fuppofing the whole to coft ...
الصفحة 85
... confidered the most obliging , fimple , good natured , pimple fellow exifting . Little Confequence , a journeyman weaver , had not been fix months a book - keeper , until , through the influence of his brother , a pedagogue , who got ...
... confidered the most obliging , fimple , good natured , pimple fellow exifting . Little Confequence , a journeyman weaver , had not been fix months a book - keeper , until , through the influence of his brother , a pedagogue , who got ...
الصفحة 97
... confidered a difgrace in Jamaica for the poorest man to ride one ; his fecond year's falary goes to the doctors , and the third to the merchant and taylors ; in fhort , if he can keep tolerable clear of debt for four , five , or fix ...
... confidered a difgrace in Jamaica for the poorest man to ride one ; his fecond year's falary goes to the doctors , and the third to the merchant and taylors ; in fhort , if he can keep tolerable clear of debt for four , five , or fix ...
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