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 19
How happy is the doctor's fate In that fweet çlime : he once gets footing , Ador'd by all on each estate , Enjoys his girl , and wants for nothing , His pills and potions cost not much ...
How happy is the doctor's fate In that fweet çlime : he once gets footing , Ador'd by all on each estate , Enjoys his girl , and wants for nothing , His pills and potions cost not much ...
الصفحة 45
If the estate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ground is holed and manured again ; but if it be a deep soil , it may yield good rattoons for ten or fifteen years .
If the estate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ground is holed and manured again ; but if it be a deep soil , it may yield good rattoons for ten or fifteen years .
الصفحة 47
The canes being cut , and all the trash lopped off , are carried in wanes , or if the estate is mountainous , on mules backs , to the mill , and are put in small quantities ( fix or seven at a time ) between the first and second roller ...
The canes being cut , and all the trash lopped off , are carried in wanes , or if the estate is mountainous , on mules backs , to the mill , and are put in small quantities ( fix or seven at a time ) between the first and second roller ...
الصفحة 57
Now , supposing the estate to be well managed , and to make upon an average one hundred and sixty hogsheads of good Muscovado sugar yearly , E and 1 and eighty puncheons of rum , the sugar to IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 57.
Now , supposing the estate to be well managed , and to make upon an average one hundred and sixty hogsheads of good Muscovado sugar yearly , E and 1 and eighty puncheons of rum , the sugar to IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 57.
الصفحة 58
Any man with four or five chousand pounds may get possesfion of a plantation , llaves , & c . by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual inftalments , and giving a mortgage by way of fe . curity on the estate ; and after ...
Any man with four or five chousand pounds may get possesfion of a plantation , llaves , & c . by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual inftalments , and giving a mortgage by way of fe . curity on the estate ; and after ...
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