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 45
... and so on from time to time until all the bank is level to their roots ; after which they are weeded occasionally until they grow six or seven feet high ; they are commonly ripe in about twelve months from the time of planting .
... and so on from time to time until all the bank is level to their roots ; after which they are weeded occasionally until they grow six or seven feet high ; they are commonly ripe in about twelve months from the time of planting .
الصفحة 55
... or twenty days ; but such I am convinced know nothing about distillation ; the generality of adventurers in the planting line , who have any hopes of preferment , think attention to the distill - house a menial part of plantership ...
... or twenty days ; but such I am convinced know nothing about distillation ; the generality of adventurers in the planting line , who have any hopes of preferment , think attention to the distill - house a menial part of plantership ...
الصفحة 59
Guinea grass will grow on the most fandy desercs or mountains ; the method of planting it is as follows : - The ground ... in the grass is taken and planted , six or seven blades in a hole , and in some weeks after cleared and moulded .
Guinea grass will grow on the most fandy desercs or mountains ; the method of planting it is as follows : - The ground ... in the grass is taken and planted , six or seven blades in a hole , and in some weeks after cleared and moulded .
الصفحة 64
... or if he enters into the planting line , to succeed as well ; to get poffeffion of Naves , & c . whilft many English and Irish young men , though ever so clever , are often hard fet to procure themselves the necessaries of life : I ...
... or if he enters into the planting line , to succeed as well ; to get poffeffion of Naves , & c . whilft many English and Irish young men , though ever so clever , are often hard fet to procure themselves the necessaries of life : I ...
الصفحة 66
... that in a very few years the poorest wandering Jerusalemite will accumulate wealth ; they all live miserably mean upon planting , and some trash of darnaged herrings , and other saltfish , until they get independent in the world .
... that in a very few years the poorest wandering Jerusalemite will accumulate wealth ; they all live miserably mean upon planting , and some trash of darnaged herrings , and other saltfish , until they get independent in the world .
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almoſt alſo appear attend attorney beſt better book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn cowſkin Creole cure drink eight eſtate eyes favour feet field firſt five follows fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor reſpect ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſoon ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf