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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We then with difficulty got alhore , the swell or furf at the beech being always fo Grong , that small boats would be dashed to pieces if great care was not taken to keep them a Boat some distance from the shore : people passing and ...
We then with difficulty got alhore , the swell or furf at the beech being always fo Grong , that small boats would be dashed to pieces if great care was not taken to keep them a Boat some distance from the shore : people passing and ...
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... and a purge or two , timely and properly administered , and afterwards a few doses of Peruvian bark , each infused in a wine glass of water , and taken hourly , will effectually stop the fever's further progress .
... and a purge or two , timely and properly administered , and afterwards a few doses of Peruvian bark , each infused in a wine glass of water , and taken hourly , will effectually stop the fever's further progress .
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Jamaica was taken from the Spaniards under the command of admiral Penn , in 1655. This island is composed of huge and lofty rocky mountains , hills , valleys and plains , and is in three divisions , viz Middlesex , Surry , and Cornwall ...
Jamaica was taken from the Spaniards under the command of admiral Penn , in 1655. This island is composed of huge and lofty rocky mountains , hills , valleys and plains , and is in three divisions , viz Middlesex , Surry , and Cornwall ...
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After the first crop is taken off there springs up a second one , called rattoons , which often is better than the first . If the estate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ground is ...
After the first crop is taken off there springs up a second one , called rattoons , which often is better than the first . If the estate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ground is ...
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... to be taken off ; there ' are many gradations to be observed in boiling of sugar ; such as sufficient boiling ; too much boiling ; fufficient temper ; too much temper ; too little temper ; rich canes ; poor canes ; and burnt canes .
... to be taken off ; there ' are many gradations to be observed in boiling of sugar ; such as sufficient boiling ; too much boiling ; fufficient temper ; too much temper ; too little temper ; rich canes ; poor canes ; and burnt canes .
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