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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... stand at the coppers , and pack whole hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the distill - house ; but the generality of managers think they have got a proper any disa knowledge of all these , without ever handling.
... stand at the coppers , and pack whole hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the distill - house ; but the generality of managers think they have got a proper any disa knowledge of all these , without ever handling.
الصفحة 51
The greatest care and attention of the manager and overseers during crop are requisite ; for the whole produce of the year , which cost such vast labour and expence , go through hands in three or four months ; and good or bad management ...
The greatest care and attention of the manager and overseers during crop are requisite ; for the whole produce of the year , which cost such vast labour and expence , go through hands in three or four months ; and good or bad management ...
الصفحة 59
... ftables , shades , and penrs , suppose to cost 2500l . all which added , is 98201 .; but supposing the whole to cost 12,000 l . which is not half the price of a sugar plantation , the interest of which is g60l .
... ftables , shades , and penrs , suppose to cost 2500l . all which added , is 98201 .; but supposing the whole to cost 12,000 l . which is not half the price of a sugar plantation , the interest of which is g60l .
الصفحة 65
On every side , their pliant tongues Roar out , “ who bids ; ” the whole day long They stretch and strain their brazen lungs , With “ going , going — there , its gone . ” These Christ - killing dogs exert every base means to impose upon ...
On every side , their pliant tongues Roar out , “ who bids ; ” the whole day long They stretch and strain their brazen lungs , With “ going , going — there , its gone . ” These Christ - killing dogs exert every base means to impose upon ...
الصفحة 66
There are feveral Jews all over the island , many rich merchants and planters ; the whole tribe afist each other with money or credit ; fo that in a very few years the poorest wandering Jerusalemice will accuinulate wealth ; they all ...
There are feveral Jews all over the island , many rich merchants and planters ; the whole tribe afist each other with money or credit ; fo that in a very few years the poorest wandering Jerusalemice will accuinulate wealth ; they all ...
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