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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... washed away , and circulates in every current , for which reason filtering stones are used , which not only purify , but cool the water amazingly . There are many tafk - mafters , or employers , who care not how much young men expofe ...
... washed away , and circulates in every current , for which reason filtering stones are used , which not only purify , but cool the water amazingly . There are many tafk - mafters , or employers , who care not how much young men expofe ...
الصفحة 52
... washed quite clean . As foon as the vat which receives the fkimmings from the boiling - houfe ( which are conveyed by a gutter ) is full , they are put into a large cooler to cool , from thence let run into the cifterns , or vats ; the ...
... washed quite clean . As foon as the vat which receives the fkimmings from the boiling - houfe ( which are conveyed by a gutter ) is full , they are put into a large cooler to cool , from thence let run into the cifterns , or vats ; the ...
الصفحة 54
... washed well ; if the mixture when fet is too hot , it will ferment ftrongly for about twentyfour hours , and fall flat fuddenly , and will not yield a due proportion of rum . An accident may happen with the most careful diftiller ...
... washed well ; if the mixture when fet is too hot , it will ferment ftrongly for about twentyfour hours , and fall flat fuddenly , and will not yield a due proportion of rum . An accident may happen with the most careful diftiller ...
الصفحة 82
... the ground was fo wet and heavy , that it was very laborious to dig the cane holes , or the beft of the canes were lodged , or the earth was washed washed away from the young plants ; thus the capricious 82 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... the ground was fo wet and heavy , that it was very laborious to dig the cane holes , or the beft of the canes were lodged , or the earth was washed washed away from the young plants ; thus the capricious 82 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 83
J. B. Moreton. washed away from the young plants ; thus the capricious animal went on , conftantly peftering the attorney with long and difagreeable letters and journals ; he commonly concluded his letter with this cheering comfort ...
J. B. Moreton. washed away from the young plants ; thus the capricious animal went on , conftantly peftering the attorney with long and difagreeable letters and journals ; he commonly concluded his letter with this cheering comfort ...
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