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 42
The pastures , particularly the Guinea grass , of which I shall speak more fully hereafter , are excellent for fattening horses and cattle . Travellers have been as well pleased with the beef , mutton , pork , and poultry of Jamaica ...
The pastures , particularly the Guinea grass , of which I shall speak more fully hereafter , are excellent for fattening horses and cattle . Travellers have been as well pleased with the beef , mutton , pork , and poultry of Jamaica ...
الصفحة 46
I fear I shall be deficient in describing the mill which grinds , or rather squeezes the juice out of the canes : Suffice it to say , that a large shingled roof , of a conical form , about 30 feet diameter , being supported by twelve or ...
I fear I shall be deficient in describing the mill which grinds , or rather squeezes the juice out of the canes : Suffice it to say , that a large shingled roof , of a conical form , about 30 feet diameter , being supported by twelve or ...
الصفحة 55
Having shewn the different proportions for mixing of liquors , I shall next shew an easy and exact method of calculating them without measuring the liquors ; if the vats or cisterns are equally round or square at bottom and top ...
Having shewn the different proportions for mixing of liquors , I shall next shew an easy and exact method of calculating them without measuring the liquors ; if the vats or cisterns are equally round or square at bottom and top ...
الصفحة 58
I shall next prove clearly , that a grass - penn , or farm , is a better property , and is attended with less trouble and expence than a sugar plantation . Not many years ago , grass - pennswere considered as despicable objects for ...
I shall next prove clearly , that a grass - penn , or farm , is a better property , and is attended with less trouble and expence than a sugar plantation . Not many years ago , grass - pennswere considered as despicable objects for ...
الصفحة 60
... which I shall hereafter speak of ; and it commonly happens that fuch are more respected than men of real merit , whose noble souls scorn to practise base means to enrich themselves ; I must observe that all ranks and denominations ...
... which I shall hereafter speak of ; and it commonly happens that fuch are more respected than men of real merit , whose noble souls scorn to practise base means to enrich themselves ; I must observe that all ranks and denominations ...
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almoſt alſo amongſt appear attend attorney beſt better blood book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn Creole cure dear drink eight eſtate favour feet field firſt five fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf horſes houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies laſt leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till tion town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf