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 23
... now , thank God ; therefore strenuously recommend it to you to avoid heats and
colds , rains , heavy fogs , mists , or dews , as niuch as possible , as well as
getting your feet wet , for they are the forerunners of almost innumerable
diseases .
... now , thank God ; therefore strenuously recommend it to you to avoid heats and
colds , rains , heavy fogs , mists , or dews , as niuch as possible , as well as
getting your feet wet , for they are the forerunners of almost innumerable
diseases .
الصفحة 43
1 the pegs is marked at every seven or eight feet with a bit of coloured rag , at
every one of which a peg is stuck in the ground ( a number of pegs about two feet
long are prepared for this purpose ) . The liners having marked the first row , fall ...
1 the pegs is marked at every seven or eight feet with a bit of coloured rag , at
every one of which a peg is stuck in the ground ( a number of pegs about two feet
long are prepared for this purpose ) . The liners having marked the first row , fall ...
الصفحة 44
feet and a half square , and if the ground is not too dry and hard , forty negroes
will dig an acre . in a day ; the usual price paid for holing an acre , by those who
are obliged , for want of fufficient strength of their own , to hire jobbinggangs , is
six ...
feet and a half square , and if the ground is not too dry and hard , forty negroes
will dig an acre . in a day ; the usual price paid for holing an acre , by those who
are obliged , for want of fufficient strength of their own , to hire jobbinggangs , is
six ...
الصفحة 46
I fear I shall be deficient in describing the mill which grinds , or rather squeezes
the juice out of the canes : Suffice it to say , that a large shingled roof , of a conical
form , about 30 feet diameter , being supported by twelve or fixteen strong strong
...
I fear I shall be deficient in describing the mill which grinds , or rather squeezes
the juice out of the canes : Suffice it to say , that a large shingled roof , of a conical
form , about 30 feet diameter , being supported by twelve or fixteen strong strong
...
الصفحة 47
strong hard wood posts , six or seven feet high , erected on an eminence
contiguous to the boilinghouse , beneath the centre of which roof three iron
rollers are fixed upright and quite close together ; each roller is about two feet in
diameter ...
strong hard wood posts , six or seven feet high , erected on an eminence
contiguous to the boilinghouse , beneath the centre of which roof three iron
rollers are fixed upright and quite close together ; each roller is about two feet in
diameter ...
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