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 |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 6
الصفحة 23
... washed away , and circulates in every current , for which reason filtering stones are used , which not only purify , but cool the water amazingly . There are many task - masters , or employers , who care not how much young men expose ...
... washed away , and circulates in every current , for which reason filtering stones are used , which not only purify , but cool the water amazingly . There are many task - masters , or employers , who care not how much young men expose ...
الصفحة 52
... washed quite clean . As soon as the vat which receives the skimmings from the boiling - house ( which are conveyed by a gutter ) is full , they are put into a large cooler to cool , from thence let run into the cisterns , or vats ; the ...
... washed quite clean . As soon as the vat which receives the skimmings from the boiling - house ( which are conveyed by a gutter ) is full , they are put into a large cooler to cool , from thence let run into the cisterns , or vats ; the ...
الصفحة 54
... washed well ; if the mixture when set is too hot , it will ferment strongly for about twenty- four hours , and fall flat fuddenly , and will not yield a due proportion of rum . An accident may happen with the most careful distiller ...
... washed well ; if the mixture when set is too hot , it will ferment strongly for about twenty- four hours , and fall flat fuddenly , and will not yield a due proportion of rum . An accident may happen with the most careful distiller ...
الصفحة 82
... - pleased ; the ground was fo wet and heavy , that it was very laborious to dig the cane holes , or the best of the canes were lodged , or the earth was washed / washed away from the young plants ; thus the 82 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... - pleased ; the ground was fo wet and heavy , that it was very laborious to dig the cane holes , or the best of the canes were lodged , or the earth was washed / washed away from the young plants ; thus the 82 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 83
J. B. Moreton. / washed away from the young plants ; thus the capricious animal went on , constantly pestering the attorney with long and disagreeable letters and journals ; he commonly concluded his letter with this cheering comfort ...
J. B. Moreton. / washed away from the young plants ; thus the capricious animal went on , constantly pestering the attorney with long and disagreeable letters and journals ; he commonly concluded his letter with this cheering comfort ...
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
almoſt alſo aſſiſt attend attorney baſe becauſe beſt book-keepers buſineſs canes cattle cauſe Chriſtian ciſterns commonly conſequence conſtitution corn coſt cowſkin hero Creole cuſtoms diſeaſe diſpoſitions drink Engliſh eſtate exceſs expence expoſed falt faſhion filk firſt flaves fome fond foon friends fuch fugar Fungee gentlemen graſs hogſheads horſes houſe hundred induſtry intereſt iſland Jamaica Juſtice Kingſton laſt leaſt leſs liquor maſſa maſter miſs Mongrel morning moſt Mulatto muſt neceſſary negroes never night obſerve occafion Overſeer's overſeers pariſh perſon plantation planter pleaſe pleaſure poor poſſible preſent reſpect ſame ſave ſay ſcenes ſeaſons ſecond ſerve ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhip ſhould ſkimmings ſlaves ſmall ſome ſomething ſometimes ſpeak ſpirit ſtand ſtate ſtill ſtock ſtores ſtranger ſtrength ſtrong ſubject ſuch ſugar ſupport ſuppoſe ſweet ſwine tajo theſe thoſe traſh uſe vaſt waſhed wenches West Indies whoſe wine women young