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 54
I have always found that cifterns funk in the floor , rammed well round with tough clay , about five feet fquare , and five feet deep , answer better than vats ; they should be fixed in rows with covers to them , built fome diftance ...
I have always found that cifterns funk in the floor , rammed well round with tough clay , about five feet fquare , and five feet deep , answer better than vats ; they should be fixed in rows with covers to them , built fome diftance ...
الصفحة 58
I shall next prove clearly , that a grass - penn , or farm , is a better property , and is attended with lefs trouble and expence than a fugar plantation . Not many years ago , grafs - penns were confidered as despicable objects for ...
I shall next prove clearly , that a grass - penn , or farm , is a better property , and is attended with lefs trouble and expence than a fugar plantation . Not many years ago , grafs - penns were confidered as despicable objects for ...
الصفحة 67
who being properly instructed , will fwear to , and prove affertions which he is totally ignorant of , to effect the acquital of the culprit in conformity with his engagement , fo that he may thereby the better with certainty ingrofs ...
who being properly instructed , will fwear to , and prove affertions which he is totally ignorant of , to effect the acquital of the culprit in conformity with his engagement , fo that he may thereby the better with certainty ingrofs ...
الصفحة 72
It would be vastly 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 nurse ( as I may term mortgaging ) ; for it will be ...
It would be vastly 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 nurse ( as I may term mortgaging ) ; for it will be ...
الصفحة 75
... 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 and the heavy and untimely rains this year , affected IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 75.
... 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 and the heavy and untimely rains this year , affected IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 75.
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