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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... turning four by heat like other wines , this improves vaftly in warm climates the older it becomes , and is an excellent medicine , I am informed , in intermitting fevers ; there are as different qualities of this wine as there are of ...
... turning four by heat like other wines , this improves vaftly in warm climates the older it becomes , and is an excellent medicine , I am informed , in intermitting fevers ; there are as different qualities of this wine as there are of ...
الصفحة 17
J. B. Moreton. legs , through the venom of the mufquittoes , to turn to mortifications , whereby they lost their lives . Each night when I lay on my bed , My wearied limbs to reft , Their humming fongs kept me in dread , And fore my mind ...
J. B. Moreton. legs , through the venom of the mufquittoes , to turn to mortifications , whereby they lost their lives . Each night when I lay on my bed , My wearied limbs to reft , Their humming fongs kept me in dread , And fore my mind ...
الصفحة 46
... turn red , or ( as they fay ) get burnt ; after which , though they must be cut to clear the field , they are not worth the expence of cutting . Burnt canes make a fort of dirty black fugar without any grain , fomething like that which ...
... turn red , or ( as they fay ) get burnt ; after which , though they must be cut to clear the field , they are not worth the expence of cutting . Burnt canes make a fort of dirty black fugar without any grain , fomething like that which ...
الصفحة 47
... turns the main roller , and thereby the other two alfo ; this is what is called a cattle mill ; wind and water mills are all differently conftructed . The canes being cut , and all the trafh lopped off , are carried in wanes , or if the ...
... turns the main roller , and thereby the other two alfo ; this is what is called a cattle mill ; wind and water mills are all differently conftructed . The canes being cut , and all the trafh lopped off , are carried in wanes , or if the ...
الصفحة 49
... turning up the ladle , and obferving the white grain on the bottom thereof , the boilers know when it is fufficiently boiled , and fit to be taken off ; there are many gradations to be obferved in boiling of fugar ; fuch as fufficient ...
... turning up the ladle , and obferving the white grain on the bottom thereof , the boilers know when it is fufficiently boiled , and fit to be taken off ; there are many gradations to be obferved in boiling of fugar ; fuch as fufficient ...
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