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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1 As you probably , may call at Madiera , I will give you an idea of that small
Inand by an extract from my journal . As soon as we came to anchor opposite
Madeira , a small African island , situated in about 32o , N. latitude and 160 , 50 '
W.
1 As you probably , may call at Madiera , I will give you an idea of that small
Inand by an extract from my journal . As soon as we came to anchor opposite
Madeira , a small African island , situated in about 32o , N. latitude and 160 , 50 '
W.
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... of various kinds , wearing perpetual verdure , ' veil all the mountains and
craggy rocks , save only some small spots here ... other provisions ; the small hills
, valleys and plains , are calculated by nature for sugar plantations , pens and
farms .
... of various kinds , wearing perpetual verdure , ' veil all the mountains and
craggy rocks , save only some small spots here ... other provisions ; the small hills
, valleys and plains , are calculated by nature for sugar plantations , pens and
farms .
الصفحة 47
... the rhind or shell about one inch and a quarter thick ; these rollers being filled
with hard wood , and coged all round , and supported on the millbed , about
eighteen inches from the ground , on small pieces of metal about the size and
shape ...
... the rhind or shell about one inch and a quarter thick ; these rollers being filled
with hard wood , and coged all round , and supported on the millbed , about
eighteen inches from the ground , on small pieces of metal about the size and
shape ...
الصفحة 94
The first charge a book - keeper gets is that of the sheep , goats , swine , and
poultry ( called the small stock ) with the keys of the corn , and other stores ; he
must be very particular in getting up early every morning to hasten to the field to
call ...
The first charge a book - keeper gets is that of the sheep , goats , swine , and
poultry ( called the small stock ) with the keys of the corn , and other stores ; he
must be very particular in getting up early every morning to hasten to the field to
call ...
الصفحة 95
Turkies are the most difficult kind to raise ; ac first they require great care and
attention , ' till they get strong and grow to perchers ; a small grain of bird - pepper
, that grows in the country , given to each as soon as out of the shell , is
ferviceable ...
Turkies are the most difficult kind to raise ; ac first they require great care and
attention , ' till they get strong and grow to perchers ; a small grain of bird - pepper
, that grows in the country , given to each as soon as out of the shell , is
ferviceable ...
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