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 57
... stock , & c . will coft 30 or 40,000l . ) ; which fum of 26,000l . at 8 per cent . intereft is 20801 . which , added to the annual expence , is 28801 . Now , fuppofing the eftate to be well managed , and to make upon an average one ...
... stock , & c . will coft 30 or 40,000l . ) ; which fum of 26,000l . at 8 per cent . intereft is 20801 . which , added to the annual expence , is 28801 . Now , fuppofing the eftate to be well managed , and to make upon an average one ...
الصفحة 59
... stock , and amount to 6520l .; twenty negroes , at 401. each ; the manager's house and ftores , ftables , fhades , and penns , fuppofe to coft 2500l . all which added , is 98201 .; but fuppofing the whole to cost 12,000l . which is not ...
... stock , and amount to 6520l .; twenty negroes , at 401. each ; the manager's house and ftores , ftables , fhades , and penns , fuppofe to coft 2500l . all which added , is 98201 .; but fuppofing the whole to cost 12,000l . which is not ...
الصفحة 71
... stock ; he fhould visit the boiling - house frequently ; ftand at the tack whole hours , at times , to fee how the boilers went on , and when they went wrong direct them and fet them right ; he should not fupport managers without merit ...
... stock ; he fhould visit the boiling - house frequently ; ftand at the tack whole hours , at times , to fee how the boilers went on , and when they went wrong direct them and fet them right ; he should not fupport managers without merit ...
الصفحة 85
... stock and ftores , until at length these matters were detected , and poor Little Confequence was disbanded in difgrace ! I am forry to fay that there are too many Sneaking - Cautions , and Little Confequences , in Jamaica , and all over ...
... stock and ftores , until at length these matters were detected , and poor Little Confequence was disbanded in difgrace ! I am forry to fay that there are too many Sneaking - Cautions , and Little Confequences , in Jamaica , and all over ...
الصفحة 94
... stock ) with the keys of the corn , and other ftores ; he must be very particular in getting up early every morning to haften to the field to call the lift and return to feed the fmall ftock , and to count them exactly ; he must keep an ...
... stock ) with the keys of the corn , and other ftores ; he must be very particular in getting up early every morning to haften to the field to call the lift and return to feed the fmall ftock , and to count them exactly ; he must keep an ...
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