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
... the planters in mixing the first runnings of the low wines with the rum , till it only sinks a bubble of twenty - six , twenty - seven , or twenty - eight . Those who wish to have pure good rum for their own use , ( such as managers ...
... the planters in mixing the first runnings of the low wines with the rum , till it only sinks a bubble of twenty - six , twenty - seven , or twenty - eight . Those who wish to have pure good rum for their own use , ( such as managers ...
الصفحة 57
... boiling , and curing - houses , and distill - house , with all the conveniencies belonging to them , such as coppers , stills ,. vats , cisterns , refervoirs , gutters and pumps , manager's house , stores , & c .
... boiling , and curing - houses , and distill - house , with all the conveniencies belonging to them , such as coppers , stills ,. vats , cisterns , refervoirs , gutters and pumps , manager's house , stores , & c .
الصفحة 59
thecultivation of Guinea grass , and such emoluments arising therefrom , that managers are as much encouraged on penns as on sugar plantations . Guinea grass will grow on the most fandy deserts or mountains ; the method of planting it ...
thecultivation of Guinea grass , and such emoluments arising therefrom , that managers are as much encouraged on penns as on sugar plantations . Guinea grass will grow on the most fandy deserts or mountains ; the method of planting it ...
الصفحة 62
... yet they cannot be arrested ; their bodies are sacred ; there are several other great gentlemen of this description in the island , who have their eftates well fenced round ; the managers , and overseers , with some trusty negroes ...
... yet they cannot be arrested ; their bodies are sacred ; there are several other great gentlemen of this description in the island , who have their eftates well fenced round ; the managers , and overseers , with some trusty negroes ...
الصفحة 70
An attorney to an estate , or plantation , has a weighty charge ; if he was to act fair and honest , he should visit the plantation frequently , pry into every hole and corner of it , and surprize the manager when he least expected his ...
An attorney to an estate , or plantation , has a weighty charge ; if he was to act fair and honest , he should visit the plantation frequently , pry into every hole and corner of it , and surprize the manager when he least expected his ...
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