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 53
At the beginning of crop , probably there may not be good lees remaining fince the last year , in which cafe there must be a greater quantity of skimmings than ufual fet ; if there are no molaffes , seventy per cent . of fkimmings ...
At the beginning of crop , probably there may not be good lees remaining fince the last year , in which cafe there must be a greater quantity of skimmings than ufual fet ; if there are no molaffes , seventy per cent . of fkimmings ...
الصفحة 55
... consequently , let it be ever fo large , that is eight per cent .; again , if fkimmings be put in until it is thirty - eight parts deep , that is thirty per cent . of skimmings ; and if lees be put in till it is fixtyeight parts ...
... consequently , let it be ever fo large , that is eight per cent .; again , if fkimmings be put in until it is thirty - eight parts deep , that is thirty per cent . of skimmings ; and if lees be put in till it is fixtyeight parts ...
الصفحة 57
which fum of 26,000l . at 8 per cent . intereft is 20801 . which , added to the annual expence , is 28801 . Now , fuppofing the eftate to be well managed , and to make upon an average one hundred and fixty hogfheads of good Mufcovado ...
which fum of 26,000l . at 8 per cent . intereft is 20801 . which , added to the annual expence , is 28801 . Now , fuppofing the eftate to be well managed , and to make upon an average one hundred and fixty hogfheads of good Mufcovado ...
الصفحة 64
The markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week , and the fame fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards for lefs than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
The markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week , and the fame fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards for lefs than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 67
... at least , at five hundred per cent . The firft of December , I think , was the day , That I fet off from Charlestown for Cape Françoife , In company with monfieurs Quaver and Quiver , ( Two men of fortune , most noble and clever ) ...
... at least , at five hundred per cent . The firft of December , I think , was the day , That I fet off from Charlestown for Cape Françoife , In company with monfieurs Quaver and Quiver , ( Two men of fortune , most noble and clever ) ...
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