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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... liquors given in generous portions to the failors ; and when they meet with griping low- life paffengers , woe betide them ! They will not only shave them with a rusty iron hoop , but lather them with pitch and tar , and duck them in ...
... liquors given in generous portions to the failors ; and when they meet with griping low- life paffengers , woe betide them ! They will not only shave them with a rusty iron hoop , but lather them with pitch and tar , and duck them in ...
الصفحة 48
... liquor ; as foon as it is full , and tempered with a small quantity of Bristol lime and lye - water , the black ... liquor in the grand copper comes to a fimmering , the fire is damped , till all the dirt and trash which gathers to the ...
... liquor ; as foon as it is full , and tempered with a small quantity of Bristol lime and lye - water , the black ... liquor in the grand copper comes to a fimmering , the fire is damped , till all the dirt and trash which gathers to the ...
الصفحة 49
... liquor gets too much boiling , or too much temper , it hardens the mo- laffes in the fugar , and will be black in the coolers and hogfheads ; nor will it cure properly ; i . e . the molaffes won't drain from it . When liquor has got ...
... liquor gets too much boiling , or too much temper , it hardens the mo- laffes in the fugar , and will be black in the coolers and hogfheads ; nor will it cure properly ; i . e . the molaffes won't drain from it . When liquor has got ...
الصفحة 52
... liquor , and fyrrup , they get about the works . The diftill - houfe is commonly annexed to the boiling - houfe , or very contiguous to it , wherein the cifterns , or vats , for fermenting the fkimmings and molaffes are placed . At the ...
... liquor , and fyrrup , they get about the works . The diftill - houfe is commonly annexed to the boiling - houfe , or very contiguous to it , wherein the cifterns , or vats , for fermenting the fkimmings and molaffes are placed . At the ...
الصفحة 53
J. B. Moreton. in that of good ftrong fermented liquor , and that of bad ; five gallons of fkimmings is fuppofed to be equal to one gallon of molaffes ; I always found that fourteen gallons of fweets in every hundred gallons of the ...
J. B. Moreton. in that of good ftrong fermented liquor , and that of bad ; five gallons of fkimmings is fuppofed to be equal to one gallon of molaffes ; I always found that fourteen gallons of fweets in every hundred gallons of the ...
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