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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الصفحة 51
The greatest care and attention of the manager and overfeers during crop are requifite ; for the whole produce of the year , which coft such vast labour and expence , go through hands in three or four months ; and good or bad management ...
The greatest care and attention of the manager and overfeers during crop are requifite ; for the whole produce of the year , which coft such vast labour and expence , go through hands in three or four months ; and good or bad management ...
الصفحة 54
... that when a charge of liquor has been fet too hot , or when ropy skimmings have been fet , or when any charge does not yield a proper quantity of low wines , to throw the lees of such charges away , and to get the lee ciftern wafhed ...
... that when a charge of liquor has been fet too hot , or when ropy skimmings have been fet , or when any charge does not yield a proper quantity of low wines , to throw the lees of such charges away , and to get the lee ciftern wafhed ...
الصفحة 55
Some diftillers throw in the fweets at different times , and make such mixtures that keep working on flowly for fixteen , eighteen , or twenty days ; but fuch I am convinced know nothing about diftillation ; the generality of ...
Some diftillers throw in the fweets at different times , and make such mixtures that keep working on flowly for fixteen , eighteen , or twenty days ; but fuch I am convinced know nothing about diftillation ; the generality of ...
الصفحة 68
Now keen little Ifaac ! David , or Saul ; Or , wife little Solomon , wifeft of all ! .. Again , he's a pedlar ! a Chrift - killing Jew ! Nay , Random took pains to lible me too ; Such barbarous redicule hurted me fore , ' Till we came ...
Now keen little Ifaac ! David , or Saul ; Or , wife little Solomon , wifeft of all ! .. Again , he's a pedlar ! a Chrift - killing Jew ! Nay , Random took pains to lible me too ; Such barbarous redicule hurted me fore , ' Till we came ...
الصفحة 70
Such mighty heroes that were pigmies born , " Tempt not my envy , but provoke my fcorn . " An attorney to an eftate , or plantation , has a weighty charge ; if he was to act fair and honeft , he should vifit the plantation frequently ...
Such mighty heroes that were pigmies born , " Tempt not my envy , but provoke my fcorn . " An attorney to an eftate , or plantation , has a weighty charge ; if he was to act fair and honeft , he should vifit the plantation frequently ...
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