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 45
... it is known by the richness of their juice , or by cutting some of them with a sharp knife , and observing the grain : if it appears soft and moist , like a potatoe or turnip , it is too green : but if dry , and white parcicles ...
... it is known by the richness of their juice , or by cutting some of them with a sharp knife , and observing the grain : if it appears soft and moist , like a potatoe or turnip , it is too green : but if dry , and white parcicles ...
الصفحة 49
... nor will it cure properly ; i . e . the molasses won't drain from it . When liquor has got sufficient temper , it is known by holding up the ladle ; if it drips fort it has got enough ; but if long , like tar , too little .
... nor will it cure properly ; i . e . the molasses won't drain from it . When liquor has got sufficient temper , it is known by holding up the ladle ; if it drips fort it has got enough ; but if long , like tar , too little .
الصفحة 62
... constant look out , the gates are always locked , so that no stranger or other person if not well known will get admitcance ; the produce is all shipped on Sundays ; the Naves , and other stock , are only to be met with on Sundays .
... constant look out , the gates are always locked , so that no stranger or other person if not well known will get admitcance ; the produce is all shipped on Sundays ; the Naves , and other stock , are only to be met with on Sundays .
الصفحة 64
The markets are very precarious ; I have known salt provisions to sell at one hundred and fifty per cent , profit one week , and the same fold again in the 1 the course of a few weeks afterwards for less than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
The markets are very precarious ; I have known salt provisions to sell at one hundred and fifty per cent , profit one week , and the same fold again in the 1 the course of a few weeks afterwards for less than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 66
... are not permitted to reprenfent in assembly , nor to hold any public offices under government , yet they are suffered to give evidence among Christians , which I think is a dangerous system , as it is well known they pay no segard ...
... are not permitted to reprenfent in assembly , nor to hold any public offices under government , yet they are suffered to give evidence among Christians , which I think is a dangerous system , as it is well known they pay no segard ...
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| العنوان | 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 Eighteenth century 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, J. B. Moreton |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | جامعة أوكسفورد |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 8 أيار (مايو) 2009 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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