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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... and is certainly very unfriendly to European conftitutions , and would be more so were it not for the sea - breeze , which sets in every morning about nine or ten o'clock , increasing as the sun gathers strength , cill he ascends to ...
... and is certainly very unfriendly to European conftitutions , and would be more so were it not for the sea - breeze , which sets in every morning about nine or ten o'clock , increasing as the sun gathers strength , cill he ascends to ...
الصفحة 38
May and October are commonly the rainy months , at which cime the rains , ( or feasons , as they are called ) set in , and violently fall for several days ; fometimes in rapid corrents , composing innumerable rivers and gullies , and in ...
May and October are commonly the rainy months , at which cime the rains , ( or feasons , as they are called ) set in , and violently fall for several days ; fometimes in rapid corrents , composing innumerable rivers and gullies , and in ...
الصفحة 43
... when part of the field is thus lined , the negroes set in between the pegs ( each pair having an equal talk 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 ...
... when part of the field is thus lined , the negroes set in between the pegs ( each pair having an equal talk 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 ...
الصفحة 48
In the boiling - house there are four or five coppers of different sizes set close together , about eighteen inches from the floor ; the largest of which is called the grand copper , and the first that is filled with liquor ; as soon as ...
In the boiling - house there are four or five coppers of different sizes set close together , about eighteen inches from the floor ; the largest of which is called the grand copper , and the first that is filled with liquor ; as soon as ...
الصفحة 52
If skimmings remain ten or twelve hours unset , they will curn ropy and spoil , after which , if they are set , they will prevent the other sweets from yielding a due proportion of ruin , and will see the distill - house foul ...
If skimmings remain ten or twelve hours unset , they will curn ropy and spoil , after which , if they are set , they will prevent the other sweets from yielding a due proportion of ruin , and will see the distill - house foul ...
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