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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... feven pounds out of my trunk , which he paid for linen for fhrouding , and a dozen of Madeira wine to get drunk at my funeral . When the messenger returned , which was some hours after , my brother book - keeper , who had fome ...
... feven pounds out of my trunk , which he paid for linen for fhrouding , and a dozen of Madeira wine to get drunk at my funeral . When the messenger returned , which was some hours after , my brother book - keeper , who had fome ...
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... feven or eight times ; the whole being over , and your ftomach at eafe , drink fome thin water gruel , which probably will work you downwards ; next morning take the purge diffolved in a cup of warm water , and work it off with thin ...
... feven or eight times ; the whole being over , and your ftomach at eafe , drink fome thin water gruel , which probably will work you downwards ; next morning take the purge diffolved in a cup of warm water , and work it off with thin ...
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... canes is first cleared of all fhrubbery , and lined , if level , from one end to the other , as ftrait as poffible with a line and fquare : the line is 1 is marked at every feven or eight feet with a 42 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... canes is first cleared of all fhrubbery , and lined , if level , from one end to the other , as ftrait as poffible with a line and fquare : the line is 1 is marked at every feven or eight feet with a 42 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 43
J. B. Moreton. is marked at every feven or eight feet with a bit of coloured rag , at every one of which a peg is ftuck in the ground ( a number of pegs about two feet long are prepared for this purpose ) . The liners having marked the ...
J. B. Moreton. is marked at every feven or eight feet with a bit of coloured rag , at every one of which a peg is ftuck in the ground ( a number of pegs about two feet long are prepared for this purpose ) . The liners having marked the ...
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... feven pounds . If the land is newly broke up , or a good deep brick mould foil , it will not require manure ; but if otherwife , it must be improved ; and this part of plantership is very troublesome ; for procuring and making manure ...
... feven pounds . If the land is newly broke up , or a good deep brick mould foil , it will not require manure ; but if otherwife , it must be improved ; and this part of plantership is very troublesome ; for procuring and making manure ...
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