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 17
... and is certainly very unfriendly to European conftitutions , and would be more so were it not for the sea - breeze , which sets in every morning about nine or ten o'clock , increasing as the sun gathers strength , till he ascends to ...
... and is certainly very unfriendly to European conftitutions , and would be more so were it not for the sea - breeze , which sets in every morning about nine or ten o'clock , increasing as the sun gathers strength , till he ascends to ...
الصفحة 43
... when part of the field is thus lined , the negroes set in between the pegs ( each pair having an equal talk of feven or eight feet ) , and dig the earth about eight or nine inches deep till they form an even pretty bank from one end ...
... when part of the field is thus lined , the negroes set in between the pegs ( each pair having an equal talk of feven or eight feet ) , and dig the earth about eight or nine inches deep till they form an even pretty bank from one end ...
الصفحة 48
In the boiling - house there are four or five coppers of different sizes set close together , about eighteen inches from the floor ; the largest of which is called the grand copper , and the first that is filled with liquor ; as soon as ...
In the boiling - house there are four or five coppers of different sizes set close together , about eighteen inches from the floor ; the largest of which is called the grand copper , and the first that is filled with liquor ; as soon as ...
الصفحة 52
If skimmings remain ten or twelve hours unset , they will turn ropy and spoil , after which , if they are set , they will prevent the other sweets from yielding a due proportion of rum , and will set the distill - house foul ...
If skimmings remain ten or twelve hours unset , they will turn ropy and spoil , after which , if they are set , they will prevent the other sweets from yielding a due proportion of rum , and will set the distill - house foul ...
الصفحة 53
At the beginning of crop , probably there may not be good lees remaining since the last year , in which case there must be a greater quantity of skimmings than usual set ; if there are no molasses , feventy per cent . of skimmings ...
At the beginning of crop , probably there may not be good lees remaining since the last year , in which case there must be a greater quantity of skimmings than usual set ; if there are no molasses , feventy per cent . of skimmings ...
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| العنوان | 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 |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | المكتبة البريطانية |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 21 تشرين الأول (أكتوبر) 2013 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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