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 47
... thofe arms , are drove round by little boys or girls , which of courfe turns the main roller , and thereby the other two alfo ; this is what is called a cattle mill ; wind and water mills are all differently con- ftructed . The canes ...
... thofe arms , are drove round by little boys or girls , which of courfe turns the main roller , and thereby the other two alfo ; this is what is called a cattle mill ; wind and water mills are all differently con- ftructed . The canes ...
الصفحة 55
... thofe parts deep , con- fequently , let it be ever fo large , that is eight per cent .; again , if skimmings be put in until it is thirty - eight parts deep , that is thirty per cent . of skimmings ; and if lees be put in till it is ...
... thofe parts deep , con- fequently , let it be ever fo large , that is eight per cent .; again , if skimmings be put in until it is thirty - eight parts deep , that is thirty per cent . of skimmings ; and if lees be put in till it is ...
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 over- feers , affociate with them ; but latterly there has been fuch improvements all over the country in the thecultivation of Guinea grafs , and fuch emolu- ments arifing 58 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... thofe of fugar plantations , or even the over- feers , affociate with them ; but latterly there has been fuch improvements all over the country in the thecultivation of Guinea grafs , and fuch emolu- ments arifing 58 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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 fellow- fellow creatures , friends and acquantance , daily devoured by 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 fellow- fellow creatures , friends and acquantance , daily devoured by IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 61.
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