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 13
The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent favour and quality instead of turning four by heat like other wines , this improves vastly in warm climates the older it becomes , and is an excellent medicine , I am informed ...
The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent favour and quality instead of turning four by heat like other wines , this improves vastly in warm climates the older it becomes , and is an excellent medicine , I am informed ...
الصفحة 42
Travellers have been as well pleased with the beef , mutton , pork , and poultry of Jamaica , as with any they got in Europe , particularly with the pork , which is remarkable delicate in favour , and superior to any which can be ...
Travellers have been as well pleased with the beef , mutton , pork , and poultry of Jamaica , as with any they got in Europe , particularly with the pork , which is remarkable delicate in favour , and superior to any which can be ...
الصفحة 56
Rum improves vastly in favour , but weakens in strength , by air and frequent wreckings into different vessels . Porter casks , porter , and the dregs of porter , will improve rum ; also tea , and temper lime , about two quarts of the ...
Rum improves vastly in favour , but weakens in strength , by air and frequent wreckings into different vessels . Porter casks , porter , and the dregs of porter , will improve rum ; also tea , and temper lime , about two quarts of the ...
الصفحة 58
... both will amount to 33601 , fterling ; from which , deducting the annual expence , the remainder is 4801. in favour of the planter ; which is by no means equal to the risque he runs of hurricanes , droughts , & c .
... both will amount to 33601 , fterling ; from which , deducting the annual expence , the remainder is 4801. in favour of the planter ; which is by no means equal to the risque he runs of hurricanes , droughts , & c .
الصفحة 63
There is a law of the island favouring insolvent debtors , by which any person in the space of three months , by rendering all his property to his creditors , may get from prison ; in every parish there is a deputy provost marshal ...
There is a law of the island favouring insolvent debtors , by which any person in the space of three months , by rendering all his property to his creditors , may get from prison ; in every parish there is a deputy provost marshal ...
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