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 39
I myself once beheld them trembling all round me , and their rocky ftupendous tops precipitating their rugged cliffs ; I faw the fea rife several feet beyond its usual bounds , and swallow up valuable ftores and wharfs ; nay , it has ...
I myself once beheld them trembling all round me , and their rocky ftupendous tops precipitating their rugged cliffs ; I faw the fea rife several feet beyond its usual bounds , and swallow up valuable ftores and wharfs ; nay , it has ...
الصفحة 46
... canes are once burnt , I would recommend to every manager not to make any more fugar out of them , only what would ferve for plantation use , to convert the juice of the remainder , without boiling it , into rum , which will yield a ...
... canes are once burnt , I would recommend to every manager not to make any more fugar out of them , only what would ferve for plantation use , to convert the juice of the remainder , without boiling it , into rum , which will yield a ...
الصفحة 54
An accident may happen with the most careful diftiller through hurry , or neglect of negroes ; but when a mif- . take or error is once committed , a person should be cautious to avoid a repetition of the like again ; therefore observe ...
An accident may happen with the most careful diftiller through hurry , or neglect of negroes ; but when a mif- . take or error is once committed , a person should be cautious to avoid a repetition of the like again ; therefore observe ...
الصفحة 62
... are always locked , fo that no stranger or other perfon if not well known will get admittance ; the produce is all shipped on Sundays ; the flaves , and other ftock , are only to be met with on Sundays . I once had occafion to wait ...
... are always locked , fo that no stranger or other perfon if not well known will get admittance ; the produce is all shipped on Sundays ; the flaves , and other ftock , are only to be met with on Sundays . I once had occafion to wait ...
الصفحة 67
Jews are very remarkable ; there is something curiously ill - looking in their tawny features ; I once failed from Charlestown with a Jew pedlar , and several other paffengers ; a copy of the Jews letter to his friend having fallen in ...
Jews are very remarkable ; there is something curiously ill - looking in their tawny features ; I once failed from Charlestown with a Jew pedlar , and several other paffengers ; a copy of the Jews letter to his friend having fallen in ...
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