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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... must not indulge in fine fair weather it is healthy to rife early in the morning , and very pleasant to walk the deck , at least I always found it fo ; to behold the fun , that grand and most refplendent luminary of heaven , emerging ...
... must not indulge in fine fair weather it is healthy to rife early in the morning , and very pleasant to walk the deck , at least I always found it fo ; to behold the fun , that grand and most refplendent luminary of heaven , emerging ...
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J. B. Moreton. 1 mation much abated , repeat the boluses and electuary . You must not omit every day to bathe and wash the parts two or three times , and to use the injections with a handy penis fyrenge ; and every night when going to ...
J. B. Moreton. 1 mation much abated , repeat the boluses and electuary . You must not omit every day to bathe and wash the parts two or three times , and to use the injections with a handy penis fyrenge ; and every night when going to ...
الصفحة 43
... must be dug in fuch a manner , that after rains every part may retain an equal share of moisture ; if the holes were ftrait up and down , the canes would never come to perfection , but would parch with drought . Suppose a hill of a ...
... must be dug in fuch a manner , that after rains every part may retain an equal share of moisture ; if the holes were ftrait up and down , the canes would never come to perfection , but would parch with drought . Suppose a hill of a ...
الصفحة 44
... must be improved ; and this part of plantership is very troublefome ; for procuring and making manure requires vaft labour and pains ; there must be cattle penns contiguous to every piece intended for holing , and a number of negroes ...
... must be improved ; and this part of plantership is very troublefome ; for procuring and making manure requires vaft labour and pains ; there must be cattle penns contiguous to every piece intended for holing , and a number of negroes ...
الصفحة 46
... must be cut to clear the field , they are not worth the expence of cutting . Burnt canes make a fort of dirty black fugar without any grain , fomething like that which the Indians extract from the maple - tree in Canada , which is ...
... must be cut to clear the field , they are not worth the expence of cutting . Burnt canes make a fort of dirty black fugar without any grain , fomething like that which the Indians extract from the maple - tree in Canada , which is ...
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