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 59
... taken and planted , fix or seven blades in a hole , and in some weeks after cleared and moulded . When three or : four hundred acres of land is properly fenced round and divided into different lots , the major part of which is planted ...
... taken and planted , fix or seven blades in a hole , and in some weeks after cleared and moulded . When three or : four hundred acres of land is properly fenced round and divided into different lots , the major part of which is planted ...
الصفحة 63
... taken a propensity to the law , after ferving him four or five years very faithfully , he was fent at the expence of Mr. Hebert . to the Temple , where he was generously supported for three or four years ; if his genius had not E 4 been ...
... taken a propensity to the law , after ferving him four or five years very faithfully , he was fent at the expence of Mr. Hebert . to the Temple , where he was generously supported for three or four years ; if his genius had not E 4 been ...
الصفحة 64
... taken notice of , and immediately put into fome bufinefs , and in fome time after , if he lived , was either a military wood cock , merchant , or cowfkin hero ! The markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at ...
... taken notice of , and immediately put into fome bufinefs , and in fome time after , if he lived , was either a military wood cock , merchant , or cowfkin hero ! The markets are very precarious ; I have known falt provifions to fell at ...
الصفحة 70
... taken the chiefeft and choiceft of the effects at the valuation , and purchases it , and then makes no remittance at all for four or five years , fo that the crops , or intereft of the money , pays for the eftate ; I do affure you ...
... taken the chiefeft and choiceft of the effects at the valuation , and purchases it , and then makes no remittance at all for four or five years , fo that the crops , or intereft of the money , pays for the eftate ; I do affure you ...
الصفحة 75
... taken off : the last twenty hogfheads were fo very black , that I thought it best for your intereft to direct him to convert them into rum , which will anfwer very well , for two hogheads will make one puncheon of rum . You may be ...
... taken off : the last twenty hogfheads were fo very black , that I thought it best for your intereft to direct him to convert them into rum , which will anfwer very well , for two hogheads will make one puncheon of rum . You may be ...
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