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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The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent favour and quality ; instead of turning four by heat like other wines , this improves vastly in warm climates the older it becomes , and is an excellent medicine , I am informed ...
The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent favour and quality ; instead of turning four by heat like other wines , this improves vastly in warm climates the older it becomes , and is an excellent medicine , I am informed ...
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... containing about six thoufand square miles , and is about four thousand five hundred miles from England , and was discovered in the year 1493 , by Christopher Columbus , a very enterprising and indefatigable gentleman , a native of ...
... containing about six thoufand square miles , and is about four thousand five hundred miles from England , and was discovered in the year 1493 , by Christopher Columbus , a very enterprising and indefatigable gentleman , a native of ...
الصفحة 44
If seasonable rains happen , they will sprout up in a few days from every joint , something like young grass ; in about three or four weeks afterwards the negroes weed and mould them tenderly , and so on from.
If seasonable rains happen , they will sprout up in a few days from every joint , something like young grass ; in about three or four weeks afterwards the negroes weed and mould them tenderly , and so on from.
الصفحة 45
As the canes grow , they have joints or knots at every three or four inches distance , at every one of which they have long blades , something like faggers ; ftill , as they grow towards maturity , those blades wither and become ...
As the canes grow , they have joints or knots at every three or four inches distance , at every one of which they have long blades , something like faggers ; ftill , as they grow towards maturity , those blades wither and become ...
الصفحة 48
In the boiling - house there are four or five coppers of different sizes set close together , about eighteen inches from the floor ; the largest of which is called the grand copper , and the first that is filled with liquor ; as soon as ...
In the boiling - house there are four or five coppers of different sizes set close together , about eighteen inches from the floor ; the largest of which is called the grand copper , and the first that is filled with liquor ; as soon as ...
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