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 43
is marked at every feven or eight feet with a bit of coloured rag , at every one of which a peg is ftuck in the ground ( a number of pegs about two feet long are prepared for this purpose ) . The liners having marked the first row ...
is marked at every feven or eight feet with a bit of coloured rag , at every one of which a peg is ftuck in the ground ( a number of pegs about two feet long are prepared for this purpose ) . The liners having marked the first row ...
الصفحة 44
feet and a half square , and if the ground is not too dry and hard , forty negroes will dig an acre in a day ; the ufual price paid for holing an acre , by those who are obliged , for want of fufficient ftrength of their own , to hire ...
feet and a half square , and if the ground is not too dry and hard , forty negroes will dig an acre in a day ; the ufual price paid for holing an acre , by those who are obliged , for want of fufficient ftrength of their own , to hire ...
الصفحة 45
weed and mould them tenderly , and fo on from time to time until all the bank is level to their roots ; after which they are weeded occafionally until they grow fix or seven feet high ; they are commonly ripe in about twelve months from ...
weed and mould them tenderly , and fo on from time to time until all the bank is level to their roots ; after which they are weeded occafionally until they grow fix or seven feet high ; they are commonly ripe in about twelve months from ...
الصفحة 46
I fear I fhall be deficient in defcribing the mill which grinds , or rather squeezes the juice out of the canes : Suffice it to fay , that a large fhingled roof , of a conical form , about 30 feet diameter , being fupported by twelve or ...
I fear I fhall be deficient in defcribing the mill which grinds , or rather squeezes the juice out of the canes : Suffice it to fay , that a large fhingled roof , of a conical form , about 30 feet diameter , being fupported by twelve or ...
الصفحة 47
strong hard wood pofts , fix or feven feet high , erected on an eminence contiguous to the boilinghoufe , beneath the centre of which roof three iron rollers are fixed upright and quite clofe together ; each roller is about two feet in ...
strong hard wood pofts , fix or feven feet high , erected on an eminence contiguous to the boilinghoufe , beneath the centre of which roof three iron rollers are fixed upright and quite clofe together ; each roller is about two feet in ...
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| العنوان | 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 Eighteenth century 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, J. B. Moreton |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | جامعة أوكسفورد |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 8 أيار (مايو) 2009 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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