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 52
The distill - house is commonly annexed to the boiling - house , or very contiguous to it , wherein the cisterns , or vats , for fermenting the skimmings and molasses are placed . At the beginning of crop great care should be taken to ...
The distill - house is commonly annexed to the boiling - house , or very contiguous to it , wherein the cisterns , or vats , for fermenting the skimmings and molasses are placed . At the beginning of crop great care should be taken to ...
الصفحة 56
Jamaica rum is reputed the best that is made in the West - Indies , because it is the strongest , and commonly links a bubble of twenty - four ; the rum in all the other British iNands might be made equal to that of Jamaica , but it is ...
Jamaica rum is reputed the best that is made in the West - Indies , because it is the strongest , and commonly links a bubble of twenty - four ; the rum in all the other British iNands might be made equal to that of Jamaica , but it is ...
الصفحة 60
... which I shall hereafter speak of ; and it commonly happens that such are more respected than men of real merit , whose noble souls scorn to practise base means to enrich themselves ; I must observe that all ranks and denominations ...
... which I shall hereafter speak of ; and it commonly happens that such are more respected than men of real merit , whose noble souls scorn to practise base means to enrich themselves ; I must observe that all ranks and denominations ...
الصفحة 66
... how you deal in their stores , for they delight in extortion ; and beware of impositions at vendues , for one or more of them commonly attend to forestall at public sales ; let your eyes , not their tongues , direct your judgment .
... how you deal in their stores , for they delight in extortion ; and beware of impositions at vendues , for one or more of them commonly attend to forestall at public sales ; let your eyes , not their tongues , direct your judgment .
الصفحة 69
... he is obliged to make any , they are but trilling , and are commonly accompanied with specious and easy framed apologies , to screen his villainy ; such as drought , hurricanes , bad debts , death of slaves and catcle , & c . & c .
... he is obliged to make any , they are but trilling , and are commonly accompanied with specious and easy framed apologies , to screen his villainy ; such as drought , hurricanes , bad debts , death of slaves and catcle , & c . & c .
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