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 53
... is supposed to be equal to one gallon of molasses ; I always found that fourteen gallons of sweets in every hundred gallons of the mixture yielded the best proportion of rum , though some distillers use more , and some less .
... is supposed to be equal to one gallon of molasses ; I always found that fourteen gallons of sweets in every hundred gallons of the mixture yielded the best proportion of rum , though some distillers use more , and some less .
الصفحة 56
The heads of the stills should be well luted ; for negroes are often negligent , and great part of the spirits may evaporate ; the worms too should be kept as cool as possible ; a Now fire is the best : for if the spirit is hurried ...
The heads of the stills should be well luted ; for negroes are often negligent , and great part of the spirits may evaporate ; the worms too should be kept as cool as possible ; a Now fire is the best : for if the spirit is hurried ...
الصفحة 75
... that I thought it best for your interest to direct him to convert them into rum , which will answer very well , for cwo hogsheads will make one puncheon You may be affured that no attention of mine shall be wanting to your concerns ...
... that I thought it best for your interest to direct him to convert them into rum , which will answer very well , for cwo hogsheads will make one puncheon You may be affured that no attention of mine shall be wanting to your concerns ...
الصفحة 76
Mr. Ahmuty writes me , that it is best London particular ; you will lay me under an additional obligation to order that gentleman to send me two pipes next year . I am , with great regard , Dear Sir , Your most humble servant ...
Mr. Ahmuty writes me , that it is best London particular ; you will lay me under an additional obligation to order that gentleman to send me two pipes next year . I am , with great regard , Dear Sir , Your most humble servant ...
الصفحة 79
The meanest class of adventurers succeed best in the planting line ; because a man of education , spirit , or genius , would think himself buried alive , and would secretly repine and murmur at his fate , to live among an illiberal ...
The meanest class of adventurers succeed best in the planting line ; because a man of education , spirit , or genius , would think himself buried alive , and would secretly repine and murmur at his fate , to live among an illiberal ...
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