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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... feven or eight times ; the whole being over , and your ftomach at ease , drink fome thin water gruel , which probably will work you downwards ; next morning take the purge diffolved in a cup of warm water , and work it off with thin ...
... feven or eight times ; the whole being over , and your ftomach at ease , drink fome thin water gruel , which probably will work you downwards ; next morning take the purge diffolved in a cup of warm water , and work it off with thin ...
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... for canes is firft cleared of all fhrubbery , and lined , if level , from one end to the other , as fttrait as poffible with a line and fquare : the line is is marked at every feven or eight feet with a 42 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... for canes is firft cleared of all fhrubbery , and lined , if level , from one end to the other , as fttrait as poffible with a line and fquare : the line is is marked at every feven or eight feet with a 42 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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J. B. Moreton. is marked at every feven or eight feet with a bit of coloured rag , at every one of which a peg is . ftuck in the ground ( a number of pegs about two feet long are prepared for this purpose ) . The liners having marked the ...
J. B. Moreton. is marked at every feven or eight feet with a bit of coloured rag , at every one of which a peg is . ftuck in the ground ( a number of pegs about two feet long are prepared for this purpose ) . The liners having marked the ...
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... feven pounds . If the land is newly broke up , or a good deep brick mould foil , it will not require manure ; but if otherwise , it must be improved ; and this part of plantership is very troublefome ; for procuring and making manure ...
... feven pounds . If the land is newly broke up , or a good deep brick mould foil , it will not require manure ; but if otherwise , it must be improved ; and this part of plantership is very troublefome ; for procuring and making manure ...
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... feven feet high ; they are commonly ripe in about twelve months from the time of planting . After the firft crop is taken off there fprings up a fecond one , called rattoons , which often is better than the firft . If the eftate is a ...
... feven feet high ; they are commonly ripe in about twelve months from the time of planting . After the firft crop is taken off there fprings up a fecond one , called rattoons , which often is better than the firft . If the eftate is a ...
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