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 39
The 17th of June , 1692 , Port - Royal was entirely swallowed up ; two thousand lives were lost , and ships now fail over the old town , and anchor amongst the ruins of the houses ; the same day a plantation was removed more than a mile ...
The 17th of June , 1692 , Port - Royal was entirely swallowed up ; two thousand lives were lost , and ships now fail over the old town , and anchor amongst the ruins of the houses ; the same day a plantation was removed more than a mile ...
الصفحة 40
The beautiful palmeto and the cabbage - tree , also the foap - tree , the berries whereof have the same effect as soap in washing . The mangrove , which grows in marshy places close to the sea , upon the roots of which oysters of a ...
The beautiful palmeto and the cabbage - tree , also the foap - tree , the berries whereof have the same effect as soap in washing . The mangrove , which grows in marshy places close to the sea , upon the roots of which oysters of a ...
الصفحة 44
The dung being spread in the holes , the canes are laid fat upon the same , two in a row , and covered lightly with part of the bank . If seasonable rains happen , they will sprout up in a few days from every joint , something like ...
The dung being spread in the holes , the canes are laid fat upon the same , two in a row , and covered lightly with part of the bank . If seasonable rains happen , they will sprout up in a few days from every joint , something like ...
الصفحة 46
... necessaries are not prepared in time : there are many preparations to be made for crop ; the coppers and stills may want repairing or setting ; the mill and gutters , pumps and vats , or cisterns , may be in the same predicament .
... necessaries are not prepared in time : there are many preparations to be made for crop ; the coppers and stills may want repairing or setting ; the mill and gutters , pumps and vats , or cisterns , may be in the same predicament .
الصفحة 64
The markets are very precarious ; I have known salt provisions to sell at one hundred and fifty per cent , profit one week , and the same fold again in the 1 the course of a few weeks afterwards for less than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
The markets are very precarious ; I have known salt provisions to sell at one hundred and fifty per cent , profit one week , and the same fold again in the 1 the course of a few weeks afterwards for less than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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| العنوان | 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 Eighteenth century 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, J. B. Moreton |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | جامعة أوكسفورد |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 8 أيار (مايو) 2009 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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