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 45
... of which they have long blades , fomething like flaggers ; ftill , as they grow towards maturity , thofe blades wither and become burthenfome to the ftalk , fo that they are obliged to be taken off , and this is called trashing .
... of which they have long blades , fomething like flaggers ; ftill , as they grow towards maturity , thofe blades wither and become burthenfome to the ftalk , fo that they are obliged to be taken off , and this is called trashing .
الصفحة 53
... per cent . molaffes , and forty - fix per cent . of water will answer very well ; the mixture always fhould be no more than luke warm when fet ; either of thofe mixtures would ferment , and be fit to diftill in feven or eight days .
... per cent . molaffes , and forty - fix per cent . of water will answer very well ; the mixture always fhould be no more than luke warm when fet ; either of thofe mixtures would ferment , and be fit to diftill in feven or eight days .
الصفحة 56
... the planters in mixing the firft runnings of the low wines with the rum , till it only finks a bubble of twenty - fix , twenty - feven , or twenty - eight . Thofe who wish to have pure good rum for their own ufe , ( fuch as managers ...
... the planters in mixing the firft runnings of the low wines with the rum , till it only finks a bubble of twenty - fix , twenty - feven , or twenty - eight . Thofe who wish to have pure good rum for their own ufe , ( fuch as managers ...
الصفحة 58
... nor would 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 ...
... nor would 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 ...
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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