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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We then with difficulty got afhore , the fwell or furf at the beech being always fo rong , that fmall boats would be dafhed to pieces if great care was not taken to keep them a float fome diftance from the fhore : people paffing and ...
We then with difficulty got afhore , the fwell or furf at the beech being always fo rong , that fmall boats would be dafhed to pieces if great care was not taken to keep them a float fome diftance from the fhore : people paffing and ...
الصفحة 26
... and a purge or two , timely and properly adminiftered , and afterwards a few dofes of Peruvian bark , each infufed in a wine glass of water , and taken hourly , will effectually ftop the fever's further progrefs .
... and a purge or two , timely and properly adminiftered , and afterwards a few dofes of Peruvian bark , each infufed in a wine glass of water , and taken hourly , will effectually ftop the fever's further progrefs .
الصفحة 33
Jamaica was taken from the Spaniards under the command of admiral Penn , in 1655. This ifland is composed of huge and lofty rocky mountains , hills , valleys and plains , and is in three divifions , viz Middlefex , Surry , and Cornwall ...
Jamaica was taken from the Spaniards under the command of admiral Penn , in 1655. This ifland is composed of huge and lofty rocky mountains , hills , valleys and plains , and is in three divifions , viz Middlefex , Surry , and Cornwall ...
الصفحة 45
After the first crop is taken off there fprings up a fecond one , called rattoons , which often is better than the firft . If the eftate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ground is ...
After the first crop is taken off there fprings up a fecond one , called rattoons , which often is better than the firft . If the eftate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ground is ...
الصفحة 49
... to be taken off ; there are many gradations to be obferved in boiling of fugar ; fuch as fufficient boiling ; too much boiling ; fufficient temper ; too much temper ; too little temper ; rich canes ; poor canes ; and burnt canes .
... to be taken off ; there are many gradations to be obferved in boiling of fugar ; fuch as fufficient boiling ; too much boiling ; fufficient temper ; too much temper ; too little temper ; rich canes ; poor canes ; and burnt canes .
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