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 43
1 the pegs is marked at every seven or eight feet with a bit of coloured rag , at every one of which a peg is stuck in the ground ( a number of pegs about two feet long are prepared for this purpose ) . The liners having marked the ...
1 the pegs is marked at every seven or eight feet with a bit of coloured rag , at every one of which a peg is stuck in the ground ( a number of pegs about two feet long are prepared for this purpose ) . The liners having marked the ...
الصفحة 44
feet and a half square , and if the ground is not too dry and hard , forty negroes will dig an acre . in a day ; the usual price paid for holing an acre , by those who are obliged , for want of fufficient strength of their own , to hire ...
feet and a half square , and if the ground is not too dry and hard , forty negroes will dig an acre . in a day ; the usual price paid for holing an acre , by those who are obliged , for want of fufficient strength of their own , to hire ...
الصفحة 45
weed and mould them tenderly , and so on from time to time until all the bank is level to their roots ; after which they are weeded occasionally until they grow six or seven feet high ; they are commonly ripe in about twelve months from ...
weed and mould them tenderly , and so on from time to time until all the bank is level to their roots ; after which they are weeded occasionally until they grow six or seven feet high ; they are commonly ripe in about twelve months from ...
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 47
strong hard wood posts , six or seven feet high , erected on an eminence contiguous to the boilinghouse , beneath the centre of which roof three iron rollers are fixed upright and quite close together ; each roller is about two feet in ...
strong hard wood posts , six or seven feet high , erected on an eminence contiguous to the boilinghouse , beneath the centre of which roof three iron rollers are fixed upright and quite close together ; each roller is about two feet in ...
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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