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 |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 8
الصفحة 43
... second row , and so on , till the whole field is worked into narrow ridges , and beautiful strait trenches , quite square . There is little or no difficulty in lining level ground ; but hills require some care and pains ; for the holes ...
... second row , and so on , till the whole field is worked into narrow ridges , and beautiful strait trenches , quite square . There is little or no difficulty in lining level ground ; but hills require some care and pains ; for the holes ...
الصفحة 45
... second one , called rattoons , which often is better than the first . If the estate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ground is holed and manured again ; but if it be a deep foil , it ...
... second one , called rattoons , which often is better than the first . If the estate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ground is holed and manured again ; but if it be a deep foil , it ...
الصفحة 47
... second roller , and are drawn in and flattened , so that the juice is preffed out and falls on the middle bed which is lined with lead , from which a gutter , lined with lead , conveys it to the boiling - house ; as fast as they pass D ...
... second roller , and are drawn in and flattened , so that the juice is preffed out and falls on the middle bed which is lined with lead , from which a gutter , lined with lead , conveys it to the boiling - house ; as fast as they pass D ...
الصفحة 48
J. B. Moreton. : pass through the first and second rollers , they are put in again on the other side , between the second and third rollers , so that the canes pass twice through the mill , after which they are carried and spread about ...
J. B. Moreton. : pass through the first and second rollers , they are put in again on the other side , between the second and third rollers , so that the canes pass twice through the mill , after which they are carried and spread about ...
الصفحة 97
... second year's falary goes to the doctors , and the third to the merchant and taylors ; in short , if he can keep tolerable clear of debt for four , five , or fix years , and humbly flatter , fawn , cringe , lye , and dissemble , during ...
... second year's falary goes to the doctors , and the third to the merchant and taylors ; in short , if he can keep tolerable clear of debt for four , five , or fix years , and humbly flatter , fawn , cringe , lye , and dissemble , during ...
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
almoſt alſo aſſiſt attend attorney baſe becauſe beſt book-keepers buſineſs canes cattle cauſe Chriſtian ciſterns commonly conſequence conſtitution corn coſt cowſkin hero Creole cuſtoms diſeaſe diſpoſitions drink Engliſh eſtate exceſs expence expoſed falt faſhion filk firſt flaves fome fond foon friends fuch fugar Fungee gentlemen graſs hogſheads horſes houſe hundred induſtry intereſt iſland Jamaica Juſtice Kingſton laſt leaſt leſs liquor maſſa maſter miſs Mongrel morning moſt Mulatto muſt neceſſary negroes never night obſerve occafion Overſeer's overſeers pariſh perſon plantation planter pleaſe pleaſure poor poſſible preſent reſpect ſame ſave ſay ſcenes ſeaſons ſecond ſerve ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhip ſhould ſkimmings ſlaves ſmall ſome ſomething ſometimes ſpeak ſpirit ſtand ſtate ſtill ſtock ſtores ſtranger ſtrength ſtrong ſubject ſuch ſugar ſupport ſuppoſe ſweet ſwine tajo theſe thoſe traſh uſe vaſt waſhed wenches West Indies whoſe wine women young