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 35
... called the South Sea Houfe ; there are also an incredible number of petty ones , called grog fhops , occupied by people of the vileft characters , ( rogues and whores ) who , like fyrens , attract and delude poor thoughtlefs failors ...
... called the South Sea Houfe ; there are also an incredible number of petty ones , called grog fhops , occupied by people of the vileft characters , ( rogues and whores ) who , like fyrens , attract and delude poor thoughtlefs failors ...
الصفحة 38
... called ) fet in , and violently fall for feveral days ; fometimes in rapid torrents , com- pofing innumerable rivers and gullies , and in fome places laying many low plantations under deluges of water , forcing the inhabitants , like ...
... called ) fet in , and violently fall for feveral days ; fometimes in rapid torrents , com- pofing innumerable rivers and gullies , and in fome places laying many low plantations under deluges of water , forcing the inhabitants , like ...
الصفحة 45
... called rattoons , which often is better than the firft . If the eftate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ground is holed and manured again ; but if it be a deep foil , it may yield good ...
... called rattoons , which often is better than the firft . If the eftate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ground is holed and manured again ; but if it be a deep foil , it may yield good ...
الصفحة 47
... called capoufes ; the main or middle roller , being filled with a long bull - tree , which extends to the utmoft centre of the roof , where it is steadied by an iron axle , and having fix or eight long fhafts or arms morticed therein ...
... called capoufes ; the main or middle roller , being filled with a long bull - tree , which extends to the utmoft centre of the roof , where it is steadied by an iron axle , and having fix or eight long fhafts or arms morticed therein ...
الصفحة 48
... called a trash - house , where they are piled , as being the only fuel for boiling the fugar ; a prudent manager will always endeavour to keep his trash- houfes full , fo that at the beginning of crop he will have plenty of seasoned ...
... called a trash - house , where they are piled , as being the only fuel for boiling the fugar ; a prudent manager will always endeavour to keep his trash- houfes full , fo that at the beginning of crop he will have plenty of seasoned ...
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