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 12
... as foon as they had got a piece of beef and a few glaffes of port , they departed well pleased ; in like manner ... the fwell or furf at the beech being always fo ftrong , that fmall boats would be dafhed to pieces if great care was ...
... as foon as they had got a piece of beef and a few glaffes of port , they departed well pleased ; in like manner ... the fwell or furf at the beech being always fo ftrong , that fmall boats would be dafhed to pieces if great care was ...
الصفحة 42
The piece of ground intended 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 ...
The piece of ground intended 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 ...
الصفحة 43
... fall back three feet and a half , and line and mark another row as they did the first , still falling back three feet and a half each time till they have lined the whole piece ( two fmart handy boys or girls are appointed for liners ...
... fall back three feet and a half , and line and mark another row as they did the first , still falling back three feet and a half each time till they have lined the whole piece ( two fmart handy boys or girls are appointed for liners ...
الصفحة 44
... requires vaft labour and pains ; there must be cattle penns contiguous to every piece intended for holing , and a number of negroes , cattle , and wanes , employed for feveral weeks , carrying cane tops , grafs and vines to them .
... requires vaft labour and pains ; there must be cattle penns contiguous to every piece intended for holing , and a number of negroes , cattle , and wanes , employed for feveral weeks , carrying cane tops , grafs and vines to them .
الصفحة 47
... thick ; these rollers being filled with hard wood , and coged all round , and fupported on the mill bed , about eighteen inches from the ground , on fmall pieces of metal about the fize and shape of whipping - tops , called capoufes ...
... thick ; these rollers being filled with hard wood , and coged all round , and fupported on the mill bed , about eighteen inches from the ground , on fmall pieces of metal about the fize and shape of whipping - tops , called capoufes ...
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