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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... planter's life , and lived regular in town , I found the climate to agree tolerably well with me , and I was as active as I am now , thank God ; therefore ftrenuously recommend it to you to avoid heats and colds , rains , heavy fogs ...
... planter's life , and lived regular in town , I found the climate to agree tolerably well with me , and I was as active as I am now , thank God ; therefore ftrenuously recommend it to you to avoid heats and colds , rains , heavy fogs ...
الصفحة 43
... planter who has any spirit of emulation , enjoys a pleasure in seeing cane holes properly lined and dug . An acre contains about 3555 holes , three D 2 fee feet and a half fquare , and if the ground IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 43.
... planter who has any spirit of emulation , enjoys a pleasure in seeing cane holes properly lined and dug . An acre contains about 3555 holes , three D 2 fee feet and a half fquare , and if the ground IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 43.
الصفحة 45
... planter , will know when they are ripe by the appearance of the tops and ftalks . It often happens , that through the neglect of manager , to his difgrace , and that of the the D3 attorney 1 attorney for fuffering it , wood for fire and ...
... planter , will know when they are ripe by the appearance of the tops and ftalks . It often happens , that through the neglect of manager , to his difgrace , and that of the the D3 attorney 1 attorney for fuffering it , wood for fire and ...
الصفحة 46
... planters . When canes are once burnt , I would recommend to every manager not to make any more fugar out of them , only what would serve for plantation use , to convert the juice of the remainder , without boiling it , into rum , which ...
... planters . When canes are once burnt , I would recommend to every manager not to make any more fugar out of them , only what would serve for plantation use , to convert the juice of the remainder , without boiling it , into rum , which ...
الصفحة 49
... planter ; and that bringing canes to perfection , boiling of fugar , and distillation of rum , & c . & c . are quite fimple ; that any man may get knowledge of these , without expofing his conftitution to the menial , toilfome , and ...
... planter ; and that bringing canes to perfection , boiling of fugar , and distillation of rum , & c . & c . are quite fimple ; that any man may get knowledge of these , without expofing his conftitution to the menial , toilfome , and ...
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