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 diftill - houfe is commonly annexed to the boiling - houfe , or very contiguous to it , wherein the cisterns , or vats , for fermenting the fkimmings and molaffes are placed . At the beginning of crop great care fhould be taken to ...
The diftill - houfe is commonly annexed to the boiling - houfe , or very contiguous to it , wherein the cisterns , or vats , for fermenting the fkimmings and molaffes are placed . At the beginning of crop great care fhould be taken to ...
الصفحة 56
Jamaica rum is reputed the best that is made in the Weft - Indies , because it is the strongest , and commonly finks a bubble of twenty - four ; the rum in all the other British islands might be made equal to that of Jamaica , but it is ...
Jamaica rum is reputed the best that is made in the Weft - Indies , because it is the strongest , and commonly finks a bubble of twenty - four ; the rum in all the other British islands might be made equal to that of Jamaica , but it is ...
الصفحة 60
... which I fhall hereafter speak of ; and it commonly happens that fuch are more refpected than men of real merit , whofe noble fouls fcorn to practise base means to enrich themselves ; I muft obferve that all ranks and denominations ...
... which I fhall hereafter speak of ; and it commonly happens that fuch are more refpected than men of real merit , whofe noble fouls fcorn to practise base means to enrich themselves ; I muft obferve that all ranks and denominations ...
الصفحة 66
... you deal in their ftores , for they delight in extortion ; and beware of impofitions at vendues , for one or more of them commonly attend to forestall at public fales ; let your eyes , not their tongues , direct your your judgment .
... you deal in their ftores , for they delight in extortion ; and beware of impofitions at vendues , for one or more of them commonly attend to forestall at public fales ; let your eyes , not their tongues , direct your your judgment .
الصفحة 69
... he is obliged to make any , they are but trifling , and are commonly accompanied with fpecious and easy framed apologies , to screen his villainy ; fuch as drought , hurricanes , bad debts , death of flaves and cattle , & c . & c .
... he is obliged to make any , they are but trifling , and are commonly accompanied with fpecious and easy framed apologies , to screen his villainy ; fuch as drought , hurricanes , bad debts , death of flaves and cattle , & c . & c .
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