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 45
... four inches diftance , at every one of which they have long blades , fomething like flaggers ; ftill , as they grow towards maturity , thofe blades wither and become burthenfome to the ftalk , fo that they are obliged to be taken off ...
... four inches diftance , at every one of which they have long blades , fomething like flaggers ; ftill , as they grow towards maturity , thofe blades wither and become burthenfome to the ftalk , fo that they are obliged to be taken off ...
الصفحة 48
... four or five cop- pers of different fizes fet close together , about eighteen inches from the floor ; the largest of which is called the grand copper , and the first that is filled with liquor ; as foon as it is full , and tempered with ...
... four or five cop- pers of different fizes fet close together , about eighteen inches from the floor ; the largest of which is called the grand copper , and the first that is filled with liquor ; as foon as it is full , and tempered with ...
الصفحة 49
... four , or five years : He may attempt it , but how infignificant and auk- ward must a man appear , who attempts or un- dertakes a business he knows nothing about ; he may may think , and fay , " My overfeers and IN THE WEST INDIA ...
... four , or five years : He may attempt it , but how infignificant and auk- ward must a man appear , who attempts or un- dertakes a business he knows nothing about ; he may may think , and fay , " My overfeers and IN THE WEST INDIA ...
الصفحة 51
... four hours fleep out of the twenty - four : when it was my weekly turn to go to bed nightly at eight or nine o'clock , P. M. I was roufed with the dreadful alarm of " fpell's called maffa , " at high twelve , and obliged to fit up until ...
... four hours fleep out of the twenty - four : when it was my weekly turn to go to bed nightly at eight or nine o'clock , P. M. I was roufed with the dreadful alarm of " fpell's called maffa , " at high twelve , and obliged to fit up until ...
الصفحة 53
... four per cent . mo- laffes , and forty - fix per cent . of water will answer very well ; the mixture always fhould be no more than luke warm when fet ; either of those mixtures would ferment , and be fit to distill in feven or eight ...
... four per cent . mo- laffes , and forty - fix per cent . of water will answer very well ; the mixture always fhould be no more than luke warm when fet ; either of those mixtures would ferment , and be fit to distill in feven or eight ...
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