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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... commonly annexed to the boiling - house , or very contiguous to it , wherein the cisterns , or vats , for fermenting the skimmings and molaffes are placed . At the beginning of crop great care should be taken to have them all scoured ...
... commonly annexed to the boiling - house , or very contiguous to it , wherein the cisterns , or vats , for fermenting the skimmings and molaffes are placed . At the beginning of crop great care should be taken to have them all scoured ...
الصفحة 56
... commonly finks a bubble of twenty - four ; the rum in all the other British ifslands might be made equal to that of Jamaica , but it is the fault of the planters in mixing the first runnings of the low wines with the rum , till it only ...
... commonly finks a bubble of twenty - four ; the rum in all the other British ifslands might be made equal to that of Jamaica , but it is the fault of the planters in mixing the first runnings of the low wines with the rum , till it only ...
الصفحة 60
... commonly happens that fuch are more respected than men of real merit , whose noble fouls scorn to practise base means to enrich themselves ; I must observe that all ranks and denominations of people are more friendly , kindly , and ...
... commonly happens that fuch are more respected than men of real merit , whose noble fouls scorn to practise base means to enrich themselves ; I must observe that all ranks and denominations of people are more friendly , kindly , and ...
الصفحة 66
... commonly attend to forestall at public sales ; let your eyes , not their tongues , direct your judgment . There are feveral Jews all over the island , many rich mer- chants and planters ; the whole tribe assist each other with money or ...
... commonly attend to forestall at public sales ; let your eyes , not their tongues , direct your judgment . There are feveral Jews all over the island , many rich mer- chants and planters ; the whole tribe assist each other with money or ...
الصفحة 69
... commonly accompanied with specious and easy framed apologies , to screen his villainy ; such as drought , hurricanes , bad debts , death of flaves and cattle , & c . & c . I have known many executors and adminiftra- tors , many ...
... commonly accompanied with specious and easy framed apologies , to screen his villainy ; such as drought , hurricanes , bad debts , death of flaves and cattle , & c . & c . I have known many executors and adminiftra- tors , many ...
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