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 39
... once beheld them trembling all round me , and their rocky ftupen- dous tops precipitating their rugged cliffs ; I faw the fea rise several feet beyond its ufual bounds , and swallow up valuable ftores and wharfs ; nay , it has been ...
... once beheld them trembling all round me , and their rocky ftupen- dous tops precipitating their rugged cliffs ; I faw the fea rise several feet beyond its ufual bounds , and swallow up valuable ftores and wharfs ; nay , it has been ...
الصفحة 46
... once burnt , I would recom- mend to every manager not to make any more fugar out of them , only what would ferve for plan- tation ufe , to convert the juice of the remainder , without boiling it , into rum , which will yield a greater ...
... once burnt , I would recom- mend to every manager not to make any more fugar out of them , only what would ferve for plan- tation ufe , to convert the juice of the remainder , without boiling it , into rum , which will yield a greater ...
الصفحة 54
... once committed , a perfon fhould be cautious to avoid a repetition of the like again ; therefore obferve , that when a charge of liquor has been fet too hot , or when ropy fkimmings have been fet , or when any charge does not yield a ...
... once committed , a perfon fhould be cautious to avoid a repetition of the like again ; therefore obferve , that when a charge of liquor has been fet too hot , or when ropy fkimmings have been fet , or when any charge does not yield a ...
الصفحة 62
... once had occafion to wait on an honorable gen- tleman of this kind in St. James ' parish ; the gate being locked , I knocked several times ; but how great was my furprize when a mufket ball came whistling by my ears ; a negroe came ...
... once had occafion to wait on an honorable gen- tleman of this kind in St. James ' parish ; the gate being locked , I knocked several times ; but how great was my furprize when a mufket ball came whistling by my ears ; a negroe came ...
الصفحة 67
... once failed from Charlestown with a Jew ped- lar , and several other paffengers ; a copy of the Jews letter to his friend having fallen in my way , I tranflated it as follows : · Dear Mofes , this chance is moft pleafing to me , To fend ...
... once failed from Charlestown with a Jew ped- lar , and several other paffengers ; a copy of the Jews letter to his friend having fallen in my way , I tranflated it as follows : · Dear Mofes , this chance is moft pleafing to me , To fend ...
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