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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الصفحة 53
... should be no more than luke warm when fet ; either of those mixtures would ferment , and be fit to diftill in feven or eight days . As foon as the first charge is run off , the lees are let run into a ciftern for that purpose , from ...
... should be no more than luke warm when fet ; either of those mixtures would ferment , and be fit to diftill in feven or eight days . As foon as the first charge is run off , the lees are let run into a ciftern for that purpose , from ...
الصفحة 56
... should be kept as cool as poffible ; a flow fire is the best : for if the spirit is hurried , and runs hot , it will not only waste , but will have a disagreeable flavor , fomething like low wines . Jamaica rum is reputed the beft that ...
... should be kept as cool as poffible ; a flow fire is the best : for if the spirit is hurried , and runs hot , it will not only waste , but will have a disagreeable flavor , fomething like low wines . Jamaica rum is reputed the beft that ...
الصفحة 58
... should be no defirable object for a man to feek after . Any man with four or five thousand pounds may get poffef- fion of a plantation , flaves , & c . by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual in ftalments , and giving ...
... should be no defirable object for a man to feek after . Any man with four or five thousand pounds may get poffef- fion of a plantation , flaves , & c . by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual in ftalments , and giving ...
الصفحة 60
... should think it ftrange if it was other- wife , when I confider how many great men there are in those torrid regions , fuccessful knaves , who by cunning , fraud , and deceit , are elevated daily from the dunghill to the fenate , which ...
... should think it ftrange if it was other- wife , when I confider how many great men there are in those torrid regions , fuccessful knaves , who by cunning , fraud , and deceit , are elevated daily from the dunghill to the fenate , which ...
الصفحة 71
... should he be deceived by clean intervals , pleasant walks , or artificial work of any kind ; he should walk acrofs and through the cane pieces all over the plantation , and fee that they were properly weeded , moulded , hoed and ...
... should he be deceived by clean intervals , pleasant walks , or artificial work of any kind ; he should walk acrofs and through the cane pieces all over the plantation , and fee that they were properly weeded , moulded , hoed and ...
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