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 45
... till the ground is holed and manured again ; but if it be a deep foil , it may yield good rattoons for ten or fifteen years . As the canes grow , they have joints or knots at every three or four inches diftance , at every one of which ...
... till the ground is holed and manured again ; but if it be a deep foil , it may yield good rattoons for ten or fifteen years . As the canes grow , they have joints or knots at every three or four inches diftance , at every one of which ...
الصفحة 48
... till they dry , and then raked up and carried to a long large fhade , called a trash - house , where they are piled , as being the only fuel for boiling the fugar ; a prudent manager will always endeavour to keep his trash- houfes full ...
... till they dry , and then raked up and carried to a long large fhade , called a trash - house , where they are piled , as being the only fuel for boiling the fugar ; a prudent manager will always endeavour to keep his trash- houfes full ...
الصفحة 55
... till it is fixty- eight parts deep , that will be thirty per cent , of lees , and the reft of water will be thirty - two per cent . Some diftillers throw in the fweets at diffe- rent times , and make such mixtures that keep working on ...
... till it is fixty- eight parts deep , that will be thirty per cent , of lees , and the reft of water will be thirty - two per cent . Some diftillers throw in the fweets at diffe- rent times , and make such mixtures that keep working on ...
الصفحة 56
... till it only finks a bubble of twenty - fix , twenty - feven , or twenty - eight . Thofe who wish to have pure good rum for their own ufe , ( fuch as managers , because they loofe nothing by it ) rectify even Jamaica rum , by putting ...
... till it only finks a bubble of twenty - fix , twenty - feven , or twenty - eight . Thofe who wish to have pure good rum for their own ufe , ( fuch as managers , because they loofe nothing by it ) rectify even Jamaica rum , by putting ...
الصفحة 68
... Till we came to anchor , and I got a fhore . But how fhall I alter the theme of my fong , To paint the fad scene , how matters go on : My heart it does jump , like a bird in a cage , And flutters about thro ' my breast in a rage ; My ...
... Till we came to anchor , and I got a fhore . But how fhall I alter the theme of my fong , To paint the fad scene , how matters go on : My heart it does jump , like a bird in a cage , And flutters about thro ' my breast in a rage ; My ...
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