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 39
... fame day a plantation was removed more than a mile from its former fituation . In confequence of fuch juft and infcrutable judgments of the creator , and judge of heaven and earth , for their manifold fins and wickedness , an act act ...
... fame day a plantation was removed more than a mile from its former fituation . In confequence of fuch juft and infcrutable judgments of the creator , and judge of heaven and earth , for their manifold fins and wickedness , an act act ...
الصفحة 40
... fame effect as foap in washing . The mangrove , which grows in marshy places close to the fea , upon the roots of which oyfters of a delicate and delicious flavour grow ; the manchioneal tree , the wood of which , though valuable and ...
... fame effect as foap in washing . The mangrove , which grows in marshy places close to the fea , upon the roots of which oyfters of a delicate and delicious flavour grow ; the manchioneal tree , the wood of which , though valuable and ...
الصفحة 44
... fame , two in a row , and covered lightly with part of the bank . If feasonable rains happen , they will fprout up in a few days from every joint , fomething like young grafs ; in about three or four weeks afterwards the negroes weed ...
... fame , two in a row , and covered lightly with part of the bank . If feasonable rains happen , they will fprout up in a few days from every joint , fomething like young grafs ; in about three or four weeks afterwards the negroes weed ...
الصفحة 46
... fame predicament . I fay , when all thefe , and many other matters , are not confidered of and prepared in time , if the canes are ripe , and dry weather enfues , they will turn red , or ( as they fay ) get burnt ; after which , though ...
... fame predicament . I fay , when all thefe , and many other matters , are not confidered of and prepared in time , if the canes are ripe , and dry weather enfues , they will turn red , or ( as they fay ) get burnt ; after which , though ...
الصفحة 64
... are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week , and the fame fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards for lefs than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at one hundred and fifty per cent . profit one week , and the fame fold again in the the course of a few weeks afterwards for lefs than 64 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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