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 46
... expence of cutting . Burnt canes make a fort of dirty black fugar without any grain , fomething like that which the Indians extract from the maple - tree in Canada , which is commonly referved for the use of the fick negroes , or ...
... expence of cutting . Burnt canes make a fort of dirty black fugar without any grain , fomething like that which the Indians extract from the maple - tree in Canada , which is commonly referved for the use of the fick negroes , or ...
الصفحة 51
... expence , go through hands in three or four months ; and good or bad management then may affect the proprietor very much . When I was one of the humble fraternity of book - keepers , or , as they are called in the Wind- ward Islands ...
... expence , go through hands in three or four months ; and good or bad management then may affect the proprietor very much . When I was one of the humble fraternity of book - keepers , or , as they are called in the Wind- ward Islands ...
الصفحة 56
... improve rum ; alfo tea , and temper lime , about two quarts of the latter to each puncheon ; burnt Mufcovado fugar will colour it . Here Here let me obferve the vaft expence which attends establishing 56 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... improve rum ; alfo tea , and temper lime , about two quarts of the latter to each puncheon ; burnt Mufcovado fugar will colour it . Here Here let me obferve the vaft expence which attends establishing 56 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 57
... expence annually ; fay 8,00l .: fuppofing the plantation and penn to contain three hundred acres , at 30l . per acre , ( which is very cheap , ) they will amount to 9,000l . more ; all which fums amount to 26,000l . at the lowest ...
... expence annually ; fay 8,00l .: fuppofing the plantation and penn to contain three hundred acres , at 30l . per acre , ( which is very cheap , ) they will amount to 9,000l . more ; all which fums amount to 26,000l . at the lowest ...
الصفحة 58
... expence , the remainder is 480l . in favour of the planter ; which is by no means equal to the rifque he runs of hurricanes , droughts , & c . & c . ; fo that in my humble opinion , a fugar plantation should be no defirable object for a ...
... expence , the remainder is 480l . in favour of the planter ; which is by no means equal to the rifque he runs of hurricanes , droughts , & c . & c . ; fo that in my humble opinion , a fugar plantation should be no defirable object for a ...
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