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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The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent flavour and quality ; instead of turning four by heat like other wines , this improves vaftly in warm climates the older it becomes , and is an excellent medicine , I am informed ...
The chief produce for exportation is wine of an excellent flavour and quality ; instead of turning four by heat like other wines , this improves vaftly in warm climates the older it becomes , and is an excellent medicine , I am informed ...
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legs , through the venom of the mufquittoes , to turn to mortifications , whereby they lost their lives . Each night when I lay on my bed , My wearied limbs to reft , Their humming fongs kept me in dread , And fore my mind opprefs'd .
legs , through the venom of the mufquittoes , to turn to mortifications , whereby they lost their lives . Each night when I lay on my bed , My wearied limbs to reft , Their humming fongs kept me in dread , And fore my mind opprefs'd .
الصفحة 46
I fay , when all thefe , and many other matters , are not confidered of and prepared in time , if the canes are ripe , and dry weather enfues , they will turn red , or ( as they fay ) get burnt ; after which , though they must be cut to ...
I fay , when all thefe , and many other matters , are not confidered of and prepared in time , if the canes are ripe , and dry weather enfues , they will turn red , or ( as they fay ) get burnt ; after which , though they must be cut to ...
الصفحة 47
... and having fix or eight long fhafts or arms morticed therein , which extend to the circumference of the roof ; the cattle or mules being chained to those arms , are drove round by little boys or girls , which of course turns the ...
... and having fix or eight long fhafts or arms morticed therein , which extend to the circumference of the roof ; the cattle or mules being chained to those arms , are drove round by little boys or girls , which of course turns the ...
الصفحة 49
to the third copper , and the grand copper filled again ; in the fourth copper , called a tach , the liquor is boiled into a thick fyrrup , and by turning up the ladle , and obferving the white grain on the bottom thereof , the boilers ...
to the third copper , and the grand copper filled again ; in the fourth copper , called a tach , the liquor is boiled into a thick fyrrup , and by turning up the ladle , and obferving the white grain on the bottom thereof , the boilers ...
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