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
... thofe blades wither and become burthenfome to the ftalk , fo that they are obliged to be taken off , and this is called trashing . When the canes are ripe , it is known by the richness of their juice , or by cutting fome of them with a ...
... thofe blades wither and become burthenfome to the ftalk , fo that they are obliged to be taken off , and this is called trashing . When the canes are ripe , it is known by the richness of their juice , or by cutting fome of them with a ...
الصفحة 53
... thofe mixtures would ferment , and be fit to diftill in feven or eight days . As foon as the firft charge is run off , the lees are let run into a ciftern for that purpose , from which they are pumped with a copper pump into a large ...
... thofe mixtures would ferment , and be fit to diftill in feven or eight days . As foon as the firft charge is run off , the lees are let run into a ciftern for that purpose , from which they are pumped with a copper pump into a large ...
الصفحة 56
... Thofe who wish to have pure good rum for their own ufe , ( fuch as managers , because they loofe nothing by it ) rectify even Jamaica rum , by putting two puncheons in the ftill , mixing it with water and diftilling it over again ; the ...
... Thofe who wish to have pure good rum for their own ufe , ( fuch as managers , because they loofe nothing by it ) rectify even Jamaica rum , by putting two puncheons in the ftill , mixing it with water and diftilling it over again ; the ...
الصفحة 58
... thofe of fugar plantations , or even the overfeers , affociate with them ; but latterly there has been fuch improvements all over the country in the thecultivation of Guinea grafs , and fuch emoluments arifing therefrom 58 MANNERS AND ...
... thofe of fugar plantations , or even the overfeers , affociate with them ; but latterly there has been fuch improvements all over the country in the thecultivation of Guinea grafs , and fuch emoluments arifing therefrom 58 MANNERS AND ...
الصفحة 61
... , and were fo fickly at the laft , that they were not able to bury each other ; and thofe lingering , faw their E 3 fellowfellow creatures , friends and acquantance , daily devoured by the IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 61.
... , and were fo fickly at the laft , that they were not able to bury each other ; and thofe lingering , faw their E 3 fellowfellow creatures , friends and acquantance , daily devoured by the IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 61.
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