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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الصفحة 31
... properly cured ; it is then you will need the affiftance of fome skilful phyfician : for fhould it by tampering and quackery , and long continuance , corrupt your blood , even falivations may prove ineffectual , at C 4 leaft leaft ...
... properly cured ; it is then you will need the affiftance of fome skilful phyfician : for fhould it by tampering and quackery , and long continuance , corrupt your blood , even falivations may prove ineffectual , at C 4 leaft leaft ...
الصفحة 43
... planter who has any spirit of emulation , enjoys a pleasure in seeing cane holes properly lined and dug . An acre contains about 3555 holes , three D 2 feet feet and a half fquare , and if the ground IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 43.
... planter who has any spirit of emulation , enjoys a pleasure in seeing cane holes properly lined and dug . An acre contains about 3555 holes , three D 2 feet feet and a half fquare , and if the ground IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 43.
الصفحة 48
... ; after the liquor is properly fkimmed and clarified , it is thrown with ladles into the fecond copper , to which fire is alfo put , and then shifted from that to 1 to the third copper , and the grand copper filled 48 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... ; after the liquor is properly fkimmed and clarified , it is thrown with ladles into the fecond copper , to which fire is alfo put , and then shifted from that to 1 to the third copper , and the grand copper filled 48 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 49
... properly ; i . e . the molaffes won't drain from it . When liquor has got fufficient temper , it is known by holding up the ladle ; if it drips fhort it has got enough ; but if long , like tar , too little . If liquor is not fuf ...
... properly ; i . e . the molaffes won't drain from it . When liquor has got fufficient temper , it is known by holding up the ladle ; if it drips fhort it has got enough ; but if long , like tar , too little . If liquor is not fuf ...
الصفحة 50
... pack whole hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the diftill - houfe ; but the gene- rality of managers think they have got a proper knowledge knowledge of all thefe , without ever handling a line 50 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
... pack whole hours daily and nightly , and take his monthly spell in the diftill - houfe ; but the gene- rality of managers think they have got a proper knowledge knowledge of all thefe , without ever handling a line 50 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
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