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 45
... planting . After the first crop is taken off there springs up a fecond one , called rattoons , which often is better than the firft . If the eftate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ...
... planting . After the first crop is taken off there springs up a fecond one , called rattoons , which often is better than the firft . If the eftate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ...
الصفحة 55
... planting line , who have any hopes of preferment , think attention to the diftill - house a menial part of plantership ; and when they become cowfkin heroes , or managers , are are totally ignorant of inftructing their overfeers or ...
... planting line , who have any hopes of preferment , think attention to the diftill - house a menial part of plantership ; and when they become cowfkin heroes , or managers , are are totally ignorant of inftructing their overfeers or ...
الصفحة 59
... planting it is as follows : -The ground being prepared by clear- ing it of fhrubbery and grafs against the first of May , and holed at every three or four feet diftance , as foon as the feafons fet in the grafs is taken and planted ...
... planting it is as follows : -The ground being prepared by clear- ing it of fhrubbery and grafs against the first of May , and holed at every three or four feet diftance , as foon as the feafons fet in the grafs is taken and planted ...
الصفحة 64
... planting line , to fucceed as well ; to get poffeffion of flaves , & c . whilst many English and Irish young men , though ever fo clever , are often hard fet to procure themfelves the neceffaries of life : I cannot conceive what the ...
... planting line , to fucceed as well ; to get poffeffion of flaves , & c . whilst many English and Irish young men , though ever fo clever , are often hard fet to procure themfelves the neceffaries of life : I cannot conceive what the ...
الصفحة 66
... planting , and some trash of damaged her- rings , and other faltfish , until they get independent in the world . Although Jews are not permitted to reprenfent in affembly , nor to hold any public offices under government , yet they are ...
... planting , and some trash of damaged her- rings , and other faltfish , until they get independent in the world . Although Jews are not permitted to reprenfent in affembly , nor to hold any public offices under government , yet they are ...
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