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 13
The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent favour and quality ; instead of turning four by heat like other wines , this improves vastly in warm climates the older it becomes , and is an excellent medicine , I am informed ...
The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent favour and quality ; instead of turning four by heat like other wines , this improves vastly in warm climates the older it becomes , and is an excellent medicine , I am informed ...
الصفحة 42
Travellers have been as well pleased with the beef , mutton , pork , and poultry of Jamaica , as with any they got in Europe , particularly with the pork , which is remarkable delicate in favour , and superior to any which can be ...
Travellers have been as well pleased with the beef , mutton , pork , and poultry of Jamaica , as with any they got in Europe , particularly with the pork , which is remarkable delicate in favour , and superior to any which can be ...
الصفحة 56
Rum improves vastly in favour , but weakens in strength , by air and frequent wreckings into different vefrels . Porter casks , porter , and the dregs of porter , will improve rum ; also tea , and temper lime , about two quarts of the ...
Rum improves vastly in favour , but weakens in strength , by air and frequent wreckings into different vefrels . Porter casks , porter , and the dregs of porter , will improve rum ; also tea , and temper lime , about two quarts of the ...
الصفحة 58
1 and eighty puncheons of rum , the sugar to net at 15l . sterling per hogshead , and the rum at 121 . per puncheon , both will amount to 33601. fter . líng ; from which , deducting the annual expence , the remainder is 4801. in favour ...
1 and eighty puncheons of rum , the sugar to net at 15l . sterling per hogshead , and the rum at 121 . per puncheon , both will amount to 33601. fter . líng ; from which , deducting the annual expence , the remainder is 4801. in favour ...
الصفحة 76
I have drawn a bill on you for two thousand pounds sterling , at ninety days sight , in favour of Messrs . ****** , of London , which please to accept ; I hope next crop to make you a remittance equal thereto ; and that in two or three ...
I have drawn a bill on you for two thousand pounds sterling , at ninety days sight , in favour of Messrs . ****** , of London , which please to accept ; I hope next crop to make you a remittance equal thereto ; and that in two or three ...
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