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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... estate , Enjoys his girl , and wants for nothing . His pills and potions cost not much , Tho ' all his skill is a mere bubble , He lives luxurious and gets rich , And kills and cures with little trouble . The following odd relation ...
... estate , Enjoys his girl , and wants for nothing . His pills and potions cost not much , Tho ' all his skill is a mere bubble , He lives luxurious and gets rich , And kills and cures with little trouble . The following odd relation ...
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... 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 may yield good rattoons for ten or fifteen years . As the canes grow , they ...
... 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 may yield good rattoons for ten or fifteen years . As the canes grow , they ...
الصفحة 47
... estate is mountainous , on mules backs , to the mill , and are put in small quantities ( fix or seven at a time ) between the first and second roller , and are drawn in and flattened , so that the juice is preffed out and falls on the ...
... estate is mountainous , on mules backs , to the mill , and are put in small quantities ( fix or seven at a time ) between the first and second roller , and are drawn in and flattened , so that the juice is preffed out and falls on the ...
الصفحة 57
... estate , which will cost about 3000l . and will require a good convenient grass - penn to feed them ; finding the slaves in food , and some fort of cloathing , and keeping up their number still as they die , as also that of cattle and ...
... estate , which will cost about 3000l . and will require a good convenient grass - penn to feed them ; finding the slaves in food , and some fort of cloathing , and keeping up their number still as they die , as also that of cattle and ...
الصفحة 58
... estate ; and after he has exhausted all his property thereon , it is taken from him or his heirs in the end , and fold to pay off debts : I say , there is very little difficuty in getting possession of an estate , but a great deal to ...
... estate ; and after he has exhausted all his property thereon , it is taken from him or his heirs in the end , and fold to pay off debts : I say , there is very little difficuty in getting possession of an estate , but a great deal to ...
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