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 45
... known by the richness of their juice , or by cutting some of them with a fharp knife , and obferving the grain : if it appears foft and moift , like a potatoe or turnip , it is too green : but if dry , and white par- ticles appear , you ...
... known by the richness of their juice , or by cutting some of them with a fharp knife , and obferving the grain : if it appears foft and moift , like a potatoe or turnip , it is too green : but if dry , and white par- ticles appear , you ...
الصفحة 49
... known by holding up ladle ; if it drips fhort it has got enough ; but if long , like tar , too little . If liquor is not fuf- ficiently tempered , the fugar will wafle more into molaffes in the curing than common , and will not have a ...
... known by holding up ladle ; if it drips fhort it has got enough ; but if long , like tar , too little . If liquor is not fuf- ficiently tempered , the fugar will wafle more into molaffes in the curing than common , and will not have a ...
الصفحة 62
... known will get admittance ; the produce is all shipped on Sundays ; the flaves , and other ftock , are only to be met with on Sundays . I once had occafion to wait on an honorable gen- tleman of this kind in St. James ' parish ; the ...
... known will get admittance ; the produce is all shipped on Sundays ; the flaves , and other ftock , are only to be met with on Sundays . I once had occafion to wait on an honorable gen- tleman of this kind in St. James ' parish ; the ...
الصفحة 64
... hero ! The markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week , and the fame fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards for less than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... hero ! The markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week , and the fame fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards for less than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 66
... known they pay no regard to the Chriftian faith . I was credibly in- formed that the legislature , not twenty years ago , were about enacting a law to allow them no fur- ther privileges than mungrels ; and it is to be la- mented that it ...
... known they pay no regard to the Chriftian faith . I was credibly in- formed that the legislature , not twenty years ago , were about enacting a law to allow them no fur- ther privileges than mungrels ; and it is to be la- mented that it ...
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