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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الصفحة 53
... less . At the beginning of crop , probably there may not be good lees remaining since the last year , in which cafe there must be a greater quantity of skimmings than usual fet ; if there are no molasses , seventy per cent . of ...
... less . At the beginning of crop , probably there may not be good lees remaining since the last year , in which cafe there must be a greater quantity of skimmings than usual fet ; if there are no molasses , seventy per cent . of ...
الصفحة 58
... less trouble and expence than a fugar plantation . Notmany years ago , grass - pennswere confidered as despicable objects for enterprizing adventurers to hunt after , nor would any man accept the manage- ment of one who had any hopes of ...
... less trouble and expence than a fugar plantation . Notmany years ago , grass - pennswere confidered as despicable objects for enterprizing adventurers to hunt after , nor would any man accept the manage- ment of one who had any hopes of ...
الصفحة 64
... markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provisions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week , and the fame fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards for less than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provisions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week , and the fame fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards for less than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 65
J. B. Moreton. the course of a few weeks afterwards for less than first cost . Vendues are very hurtful to trade ; there they are held daily , Sundays and Satur- days excepted , at which the Jews , a numerous tricking tribe , are ...
J. B. Moreton. the course of a few weeks afterwards for less than first cost . Vendues are very hurtful to trade ; there they are held daily , Sundays and Satur- days excepted , at which the Jews , a numerous tricking tribe , are ...
الصفحة 80
... less the doctor's exorbitant bills ; nor could such a one go with alacrity through the menial drudgeries of a book - keeper's life for three , four , or five years ; for he who would wish to be an overseer must serve his time ; dur- ing ...
... less the doctor's exorbitant bills ; nor could such a one go with alacrity through the menial drudgeries of a book - keeper's life for three , four , or five years ; for he who would wish to be an overseer must serve his time ; dur- ing ...
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