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 EditionJ. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 - 192 من الصفحات |
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... hundred men may fail in them . The beautiful palmeto and the cabbage - tree , alfo the foap - tree , the berries whereof have the fame effect as foap in washing . The mangrove , which grows in marshy places clofe to the fea , upon the ...
... hundred men may fail in them . The beautiful palmeto and the cabbage - tree , alfo the foap - tree , the berries whereof have the fame effect as foap in washing . The mangrove , which grows in marshy places clofe to the fea , upon the ...
الصفحة 53
... hundred gallons of the mixture yielded the best proportion of rum , though fome diftillers use more , and fome lefs . At the beginning of crop , probably there may not be good lees remaining fince the laft year , in which cafe there ...
... hundred gallons of the mixture yielded the best proportion of rum , though fome diftillers use more , and fome lefs . At the beginning of crop , probably there may not be good lees remaining fince the laft year , in which cafe there ...
الصفحة 55
... hundred equal parts , and marked fo on the rod ; then if molaffes be thrown into a ciftern until it is eight of thofe parts deep , con- fequently , let it be ever fo large , that is eight per cent .; again , if skimmings be put in until ...
... hundred equal parts , and marked fo on the rod ; then if molaffes be thrown into a ciftern until it is eight of thofe parts deep , con- fequently , let it be ever fo large , that is eight per cent .; again , if skimmings be put in until ...
الصفحة 57
... hundred and forty flaves will coft about 6000l . more ; and if there is not the convenience of water to the mill , and the plantation is far from the fhipping - place , there will be forty good mules , and about one hundred oxen ...
... hundred and forty flaves will coft about 6000l . more ; and if there is not the convenience of water to the mill , and the plantation is far from the fhipping - place , there will be forty good mules , and about one hundred oxen ...
الصفحة 59
... hundred acres of land is properly fenced round and divided into different lots , the major part of which is planted with Guinea grass , and when it is properly ftocked , it will yield a clear annual profit of 1000l . fterling . Four hundred ...
... hundred acres of land is properly fenced round and divided into different lots , the major part of which is planted with Guinea grass , and when it is properly ftocked , it will yield a clear annual profit of 1000l . fterling . Four hundred ...
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