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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الصفحة 43
... set in between the pegs ( each pair having an equal task of seven or eight feet ) , and dig the earth about eight or nine inches deep till they form an even pretty bank from one end to the other ; they then fall back to the second row ...
... set in between the pegs ( each pair having an equal task of seven or eight feet ) , and dig the earth about eight or nine inches deep till they form an even pretty bank from one end to the other ; they then fall back to the second row ...
الصفحة 54
... set ; the liquor should be skimmed three or four times daily , and the vats or cisterns , every time when emptied , should be washed well ; if the mixture when set is too hot , it will ferment strongly for about twenty- four hours , and ...
... set ; the liquor should be skimmed three or four times daily , and the vats or cisterns , every time when emptied , should be washed well ; if the mixture when set is too hot , it will ferment strongly for about twenty- four hours , and ...
الصفحة 59
... set in the grass is taken and planted , fix or seven blades in a hole , and in some weeks after cleared and moulded . When three or : four hundred acres of land is properly fenced round and divided into different lots , the major part ...
... set in the grass is taken and planted , fix or seven blades in a hole , and in some weeks after cleared and moulded . When three or : four hundred acres of land is properly fenced round and divided into different lots , the major part ...
الصفحة 71
... set them right ; he should not support managers without merit , to serve his friends , or relations , but prefer the industrious book - keepers or overseers in his own employ- ment , whose merits and long painful servitude deserved it ...
... set them right ; he should not support managers without merit , to serve his friends , or relations , but prefer the industrious book - keepers or overseers in his own employ- ment , whose merits and long painful servitude deserved it ...
الصفحة 79
... alive , and would secretly repine and murmur at his fate , to live among an illiberal narrow- minded set of cowskin heroes ; it would be pain F 4 to to him to expose his constitution to the climate , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 79.
... alive , and would secretly repine and murmur at his fate , to live among an illiberal narrow- minded set of cowskin heroes ; it would be pain F 4 to to him to expose his constitution to the climate , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 79.
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