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 54
... better than vats ; they fhould be fixed in rows with covers to them , built fome diftance afunder , fo that a man may walk between them , and fee that they are fcoured and wafhed properly each time , and at one view fee how they all ...
... better than vats ; they fhould be fixed in rows with covers to them , built fome diftance afunder , fo that a man may walk between them , and fee that they are fcoured and wafhed properly each time , and at one view fee how they all ...
الصفحة 58
... better property , and is attended with lefs trouble and expence than a fugar plantation . Not many years ago , grafs - penns were confidered as defpicable objects for enterprizing adventurers to hunt after , nor would any man accept the ...
... better property , and is attended with lefs trouble and expence than a fugar plantation . Not many years ago , grafs - penns were confidered as defpicable objects for enterprizing adventurers to hunt after , nor would any man accept the ...
الصفحة 67
... better with certainty ingrofs the prize . Jews are very remarkable ; there is fomething curiously ill - looking in their tawny features ; I once failed from Charlestown with a Jew ped- lar , and several other paffengers ; a copy of the ...
... better with certainty ingrofs the prize . Jews are very remarkable ; there is fomething curiously ill - looking in their tawny features ; I once failed from Charlestown with a Jew ped- lar , and several other paffengers ; a copy of the ...
الصفحة 72
... better for a planter , when diftreffed to answer any preffing demands which may be against him , to fell his eftate at once , or a part of it , than to put it to nurfe ( as I may term mortgaging ) ; for it will be woefully foftered ...
... better for a planter , when diftreffed to answer any preffing demands which may be against him , to fell his eftate at once , or a part of it , than to put it to nurfe ( as I may term mortgaging ) ; for it will be woefully foftered ...
الصفحة 75
... heads this year , I hope we fhall make a better crop next year ; you will pleafe to obferve , that the long continuance of the draught last year , F 2 and affected and the heavy and untimely rains this year , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 75.
... heads this year , I hope we fhall make a better crop next year ; you will pleafe to obferve , that the long continuance of the draught last year , F 2 and affected and the heavy and untimely rains this year , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 75.
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