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 48
In the boiling - house there are four or five coppers of different sizes set 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 soon as ...
In the boiling - house there are four or five coppers of different sizes set 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 soon as ...
الصفحة 49
c . are quite simple ; that any man may get knowledge of these , without exposing his conftitution to the menial , coilsome , and painful drudgeries of an overseer's life , for three , four , or five years : He may attempt it , -- but ...
c . are quite simple ; that any man may get knowledge of these , without exposing his conftitution to the menial , coilsome , and painful drudgeries of an overseer's life , for three , four , or five years : He may attempt it , -- but ...
الصفحة 51
... go through hands in threeor four months ; and good or badınanagement then may affect the proprietor very much . ... called in the Wind ward Inands , overseers , or negroe - drivers , during crop I never got more than three or four ...
... go through hands in threeor four months ; and good or badınanagement then may affect the proprietor very much . ... called in the Wind ward Inands , overseers , or negroe - drivers , during crop I never got more than three or four ...
الصفحة 53
... fifty per cent . of skimmings , four per cent . molaffes , and forty - six per cent . of water will answer very well ; the mixture always should be no more than luke warm when fet ; either of those mixtures would ferment , and be ...
... fifty per cent . of skimmings , four per cent . molaffes , and forty - six per cent . of water will answer very well ; the mixture always should be no more than luke warm when fet ; either of those mixtures would ferment , and be ...
الصفحة 54
care cannot be taken to have the skimmings and lees pure and cool when fet ; the liquor should be skimmed three or four times daily , and the vats or cisterns , every time when emptied , should be washed well ; if the mixture when set ...
care cannot be taken to have the skimmings and lees pure and cool when fet ; the liquor should be skimmed three or four times daily , and the vats or cisterns , every time when emptied , should be washed well ; if the mixture when set ...
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