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 42
... fhall give you a sketch of each . The piece of ground intended for canes is firft cleared of all fhrubbery , and lined , if level , from one end to the other , as fttrait as poffible with a line and fquare : the line is is marked at ...
... fhall give you a sketch of each . The piece of ground intended for canes is firft cleared of all fhrubbery , and lined , if level , from one end to the other , as fttrait as poffible with a line and fquare : the line is is marked at ...
الصفحة 46
... fhall be deficient in defcribing the mill which grinds , or rather fqueezes 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 fixteen ...
... fhall be deficient in defcribing the mill which grinds , or rather fqueezes 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 fixteen ...
الصفحة 55
... fhall next fhew an easy and exact method of calculating them without mea- furing the liquors ; if the vats or cifterns are equally round or fquare at bottom and top , let the exact depth with a rod be taken , and that divided into an ...
... fhall next fhew an easy and exact method of calculating them without mea- furing the liquors ; if the vats or cifterns are equally round or fquare at bottom and top , let the exact depth with a rod be taken , and that divided into an ...
الصفحة 60
... fhall con- clude this fubject , and proceed to the natives ; and though I may be fevere in the following pages against many , be affured , I will speak from expe- rience , not from prejudice ; and that I will give merit or vice the ...
... fhall con- clude this fubject , and proceed to the natives ; and though I may be fevere in the following pages against many , be affured , I will speak from expe- rience , not from prejudice ; and that I will give merit or vice the ...
الصفحة 68
... fhall I alter the theme of my fong , To paint the fad fcene , how matters go on ; My heart it does jump , like a bird in a cage , And flutters about thro ' my breast in a rage ; My brain is confus'd , and my fenfes are loft , To find ...
... fhall I alter the theme of my fong , To paint the fad fcene , how matters go on ; My heart it does jump , like a bird in a cage , And flutters about thro ' my breast in a rage ; My brain is confus'd , and my fenfes are loft , To find ...
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