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 56
... will improve rum ; alfo tea , and temper lime , about two quarts of the latter to each puncheon ; burnt Mufcovado fugar will colour it . Here Here let me obferve the vaft expence which attends establishing 56 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... will improve rum ; alfo tea , and temper lime , about two quarts of the latter to each puncheon ; burnt Mufcovado fugar will colour it . Here Here let me obferve the vaft expence which attends establishing 56 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 57
Here let me obferve the vaft expence which attends establishing a fugar plantation , fuppofing keeping only one hundred acres conftantly under canes . The mill , boiling , and curing - houses , and diftill - house , with all the ...
Here let me obferve the vaft expence which attends establishing a fugar plantation , fuppofing keeping only one hundred acres conftantly under canes . The mill , boiling , and curing - houses , and diftill - house , with all the ...
الصفحة 58
I shall next prove clearly , that a grass - penn , or farm , is a better property , and is attended with lefs trouble and expence than a fugar plantation . Not many years ago , grafs - penns were confidered as despicable objects for ...
I shall next prove clearly , that a grass - penn , or farm , is a better property , and is attended with lefs trouble and expence than a fugar plantation . Not many years ago , grafs - penns were confidered as despicable objects for ...
الصفحة 66
... you deal in their ftores , for they delight in extortion ; and beware of impofitions at vendues , for one or more of them commonly attend to forestall at public fales ; let your eyes , not their tongues , direct your your judgment .
... you deal in their ftores , for they delight in extortion ; and beware of impofitions at vendues , for one or more of them commonly attend to forestall at public fales ; let your eyes , not their tongues , direct your your judgment .
الصفحة 79
Overfeers all over Jamaica are generally Europeans , and get falaries from 100 to £ 300 fterling per annum , and are accommodated with comfortable houses , furniture , & c . and flaves to attend them ; they rear ( where they are ...
Overfeers all over Jamaica are generally Europeans , and get falaries from 100 to £ 300 fterling per annum , and are accommodated with comfortable houses , furniture , & c . and flaves to attend them ; they rear ( where they are ...
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