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 43
There is little or no difficulty in lining level ground ; but hills require fome care and pains ; for the holes must be dug in fuch a manner , that after rains every part may retain an equal share of moisture ; if the holes were ftrait ...
There is little or no difficulty in lining level ground ; but hills require fome care and pains ; for the holes must be dug in fuch a manner , that after rains every part may retain an equal share of moisture ; if the holes were ftrait ...
الصفحة 44
The dung being spread in the holes , the canes are laid flat upon the fame , two in a row , and covered lightly with part of the bank . If feasonable rains happen , they will fprout up in a few days from every joint , fomething like ...
The dung being spread in the holes , the canes are laid flat upon the fame , two in a row , and covered lightly with part of the bank . If feasonable rains happen , they will fprout up in a few days from every joint , fomething like ...
الصفحة 48
As foon as the liquor in the grand copper comes to a fimmering , the fire is damped , till all the dirt and trafh which gathers to the top is skimmed off with a flat copper fkimmer , full of holes like a fieve ; after the liquor is ...
As foon as the liquor in the grand copper comes to a fimmering , the fire is damped , till all the dirt and trafh which gathers to the top is skimmed off with a flat copper fkimmer , full of holes like a fieve ; after the liquor is ...
الصفحة 59
... fix or seven blades in a hole , and in some weeks after cleared and moulded . When three or : four hundred acres of land is properly fenced round and divided into different lots , the major part of which is planted with Guinea grafs ...
... fix or seven blades in a hole , and in some weeks after cleared and moulded . When three or : four hundred acres of land is properly fenced round and divided into different lots , the major part of which is planted with Guinea grafs ...
الصفحة 70
An attorney to an eftate , or plantation , has a weighty charge ; if he was to act fair and honeft , he should vifit the plantation frequently , pry into every hole and corner of it , and furprize the manager when he leaft expected his ...
An attorney to an eftate , or plantation , has a weighty charge ; if he was to act fair and honeft , he should vifit the plantation frequently , pry into every hole and corner of it , and furprize the manager when he leaft expected his ...
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