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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| العنوان | 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 Eighteenth century 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, J. B. Moreton |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | جامعة أوكسفورد |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 8 أيار (مايو) 2009 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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