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 36
Every one of thofe grog fhop keepers keep a horfe and kitterine , that is , a one horfe chaife , and on fundays drive about the town and country , like ladies and gentlemen , fuperbly decorated in fineries , the fpoils of war ...
Every one of thofe grog fhop keepers keep a horfe and kitterine , that is , a one horfe chaife , and on fundays drive about the town and country , like ladies and gentlemen , fuperbly decorated in fineries , the fpoils of war ...
الصفحة 48
... only fuel for boiling the fugar ; a prudent manager will always endeavour to keep his trashhouses full , fo that at the beginning of crop he will have plenty of seasoned trash , and will not be obliged to use that which is green .
... only fuel for boiling the fugar ; a prudent manager will always endeavour to keep his trashhouses full , fo that at the beginning of crop he will have plenty of seasoned trash , and will not be obliged to use that which is green .
الصفحة 50
... obferve the nature of different foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own inftruction , pay ftrict attention to the cattle and mules , learn to drefs them when maimed , to cure them when fick , and to pamper and keep them ...
... obferve the nature of different foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own inftruction , pay ftrict attention to the cattle and mules , learn to drefs them when maimed , to cure them when fick , and to pamper and keep them ...
الصفحة 55
Some diftillers throw in the fweets at different times , and make such mixtures that keep working on flowly for fixteen , eighteen , or twenty days ; but fuch I am convinced know nothing about diftillation ; the generality of ...
Some diftillers throw in the fweets at different times , and make such mixtures that keep working on flowly for fixteen , eighteen , or twenty days ; but fuch I am convinced know nothing about diftillation ; the generality of ...
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 ...
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