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 17
legs , through the venom of the musquittoes , to turn to mortifications , whereby they lost their lives . Each night when I lay on my bed , My wearied limbs to rest , Their humming songs kept me in dread , And fore my mind oppress'd .
legs , through the venom of the musquittoes , to turn to mortifications , whereby they lost their lives . Each night when I lay on my bed , My wearied limbs to rest , Their humming songs kept me in dread , And fore my mind oppress'd .
الصفحة 46
I say , when all these , and many other matters , are not considered of and prepared in time , if the canes are ripe , and dry weather ensues , they will turn red , or ( as they say ) get burnt ; after which , though they must be cut to ...
I say , when all these , and many other matters , are not considered of and prepared in time , if the canes are ripe , and dry weather ensues , they will turn red , or ( as they say ) get burnt ; after which , though they must be cut to ...
الصفحة 47
... and having six or eight long shafts or arms morriced therein , which extend to the circumference of the roof ; the cattle or mules being chained to those arms , are drove round by little boys or girls , which of course turns the ...
... and having six or eight long shafts or arms morriced therein , which extend to the circumference of the roof ; the cattle or mules being chained to those arms , are drove round by little boys or girls , which of course turns the ...
الصفحة 49
to the third copper , and the grand copper filled again ; in the fourth copper , called a rach , the liquor is boiled into a thick fyrrup , and by turning up the ladie , and observing the white grain on the bottom thereof , the boilers ...
to the third copper , and the grand copper filled again ; in the fourth copper , called a rach , the liquor is boiled into a thick fyrrup , and by turning up the ladie , and observing the white grain on the bottom thereof , the boilers ...
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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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