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 43
... eight feet ) , and dig the earth about eight or nine inches deep till they form an even pretty bank from one end to the other ; they then fall back to the second row , and fo on , till the whole field is worked into narrow ridges , and ...
... eight feet ) , and dig the earth about eight or nine inches deep till they form an even pretty bank from one end to the other ; they then fall back to the second row , and fo on , till the whole field is worked into narrow ridges , and ...
الصفحة 47
... eight long fhafts or arms morticed therein , which extend to the circumference of the roof ; the cattle or mules being chained to thofe arms , are drove round by little boys or girls , which of courfe turns the main roller , and thereby ...
... eight long fhafts or arms morticed therein , which extend to the circumference of the roof ; the cattle or mules being chained to thofe arms , are drove round by little boys or girls , which of courfe turns the main roller , and thereby ...
الصفحة 51
... eight or nine o'clock , P. M. I was roufed with the dreadful alarm of " fpell's called maffa , " at high twelve , and obliged to fit up until eight or nine o'clock next night ; or if it was my weekly turn to fit up until twelve at night ...
... eight or nine o'clock , P. M. I was roufed with the dreadful alarm of " fpell's called maffa , " at high twelve , and obliged to fit up until eight or nine o'clock next night ; or if it was my weekly turn to fit up until twelve at night ...
الصفحة 53
... eight days . As foon as the firft charge is run off , the lees are let run into a ciftern for that purpose , from which they are pumped with a copper pump into a large cooler ; when they cool and fettle they are then mixed with the ...
... eight days . As foon as the firft charge is run off , the lees are let run into a ciftern for that purpose , from which they are pumped with a copper pump into a large cooler ; when they cool and fettle they are then mixed with the ...
الصفحة 55
... eight of thofe parts deep , con- fequently , let it be ever fo large , that is eight per cent .; again , if skimmings be put in until it is thirty - eight parts deep , that is thirty per cent . of skimmings ; and if lees be put in till ...
... eight of thofe parts deep , con- fequently , let it be ever fo large , that is eight per cent .; again , if skimmings be put in until it is thirty - eight parts deep , that is thirty per cent . of skimmings ; and if lees be put in till ...
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