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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... feet long are prepared for this purpose ) . The liners having marked the first row , fall back three feet and a half , and line and mark another row as they did the first , ftill falling back three feet and a half each time till they ...
... feet long are prepared for this purpose ) . The liners having marked the first row , fall back three feet and a half , and line and mark another row as they did the first , ftill falling back three feet and a half each time till they ...
الصفحة 44
... feet and limbs of the cattle , and give them distempers of which many die . The fmall weakly gang of negroes carry the dung on boards or baskets on their heads , and fpread it thinly in the holes . Mountainous plantations require more ...
... feet and limbs of the cattle , and give them distempers of which many die . The fmall weakly gang of negroes carry the dung on boards or baskets on their heads , and fpread it thinly in the holes . Mountainous plantations require more ...
الصفحة 45
... feet high ; they are commonly ripe in about twelve months from the time of planting . After the first crop is taken off there springs up a fecond one , called rattoons , which often is better than the firft . If the eftate is a poor ...
... feet high ; they are commonly ripe in about twelve months from the time of planting . After the first crop is taken off there springs up a fecond one , called rattoons , which often is better than the firft . If the eftate is a poor ...
الصفحة 46
... feet diameter , being fupported by twelve or fixteen ftrong ftrong hard wood pofts , fix or feven feet high 46 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... feet diameter , being fupported by twelve or fixteen ftrong ftrong hard wood pofts , fix or feven feet high 46 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 47
... feet in diameter , and three feet and a half in length , the rhind or fhell about one inch and a quarter thick ; these rollers being filled with hard wood , and coged all round , and fupported on the mill bed , about eighteen inches ...
... feet in diameter , and three feet and a half in length , the rhind or fhell about one inch and a quarter thick ; these rollers being filled with hard wood , and coged all round , and fupported on the mill bed , about eighteen inches ...
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