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 51
... up until eight or nine o'clock next night ; or if it was my weekly turn to fit up until twelve at night , I was roufed at five in the morning . A refpite A refpite very fhort to fleep or to wake , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 5x.
... up until eight or nine o'clock next night ; or if it was my weekly turn to fit up until twelve at night , I was roufed at five in the morning . A refpite A refpite very fhort to fleep or to wake , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 5x.
الصفحة 53
... five gallons of fkimmings is fuppofed to be equal to one gallon of molaffes ; I always found that fourteen gallons of fweets in every hundred gallons of the mixture yielded the best proportion of rum , though fome diftillers ufe more ...
... five gallons of fkimmings is fuppofed to be equal to one gallon of molaffes ; I always found that fourteen gallons of fweets in every hundred gallons of the mixture yielded the best proportion of rum , though fome diftillers ufe more ...
الصفحة 54
... five feet fquare , and five feet deep , answer better than vats ; they fhould be fixed in rows with covers to them , built fome diftance afunder , fo that a man may walk between them , and fee that they are scoured and washed properly ...
... five feet fquare , and five feet deep , answer better than vats ; they fhould be fixed in rows with covers to them , built fome diftance afunder , fo that a man may walk between them , and fee that they are scoured and washed properly ...
الصفحة 58
... five thousand pounds may get poffef- fion of a plantation , flaves , & c . by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual in ftalments , and giving a mortgage by way of fe- curity on the estate ; and after he has exhaufted ...
... five thousand pounds may get poffef- fion of a plantation , flaves , & c . by compounding to pay the remainder of the value in annual in ftalments , and giving a mortgage by way of fe- curity on the estate ; and after he has exhaufted ...
الصفحة 59
... or 60l . an ox for 201. a fat fheep for 40s . and after the first four or five years , I fhould fuppofe a penn of this kind would annually have E 2 forty forty colts , forty oxen , and one hundred fheep IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 59.
... or 60l . an ox for 201. a fat fheep for 40s . and after the first four or five years , I fhould fuppofe a penn of this kind would annually have E 2 forty forty colts , forty oxen , and one hundred fheep IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 59.
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