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 45
... eftate 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 ...
... eftate 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
... eftate is mountainous , on mules backs , to the mill , and are put in fmall quantities ( fix or seven at a time ) between the first and second roller , and are drawn in and flattened , fo that the juice is preffed out and falls on the ...
... eftate is mountainous , on mules backs , to the mill , and are put in fmall quantities ( fix or seven at a time ) between the first and second roller , and are drawn in and flattened , fo that the juice is preffed out and falls on the ...
الصفحة 57
... . Now , fuppofing the eftate to be well managed , and to make upon an average one hundred and fixty hogfheads of good Mufcovado fugar yearly , E and and eighty puncheons of rum , the fugar to net IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 57.
... . Now , fuppofing the eftate to be well managed , and to make upon an average one hundred and fixty hogfheads of good Mufcovado fugar yearly , E and and eighty puncheons of rum , the fugar to net IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 57.
الصفحة 58
... eftate ; 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 poffeffion of an estate , but a great deal to ...
... eftate ; 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 poffeffion of an estate , but a great deal to ...
الصفحة 70
... eftate ; I do affure you , that many mighty men in councils and affemblies , all over the West Indies , have acquired all their greatnefs by fuch ignoble fchemes . " Such mighty heroes that were pigmies born , " Tempt not my envy , but ...
... eftate ; I do affure you , that many mighty men in councils and affemblies , all over the West Indies , have acquired all their greatnefs by fuch ignoble fchemes . " Such mighty heroes that were pigmies born , " Tempt not my envy , but ...
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