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 45
If the estate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ground is holed and manured again ; but if it be a deep soil , it may yield good rattoons for ten or fifteen years .
If the estate is a poor foil , there are seldom more than two crops of rattoons taken off till the ground is holed and manured again ; but if it be a deep soil , it may yield good rattoons for ten or fifteen years .
الصفحة 48
... they are put in again on the other side , between the second and third rollers , so that the canes pass twice through the mill , after which they are carried and spread about the works till they dry , and then raked up and carried ...
... they are put in again on the other side , between the second and third rollers , so that the canes pass twice through the mill , after which they are carried and spread about the works till they dry , and then raked up and carried ...
الصفحة 55
... consequently , let it be ever so large , that is eight per cent .; again , if skimmings be put in until it is thirty - eight parts deep , that is thirty per cent . of skimmings ; and if lees be put in till it is sixtyeight parts ...
... consequently , let it be ever so large , that is eight per cent .; again , if skimmings be put in until it is thirty - eight parts deep , that is thirty per cent . of skimmings ; and if lees be put in till it is sixtyeight parts ...
الصفحة 56
... islands might be made equal to that of Jamaica , but it is the fault of 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 .
... islands might be made equal to that of Jamaica , but it is the fault of 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 .
الصفحة 68
David , or Saul ; Or , wise little Solomon , wisest of all !Again , he's a pedlar ! a Chrift - killing Jew ! Nay , Random took pains to lible me too ; Such barbarous redicule hurted me fore , ' Till we came to anchor , and I got a shore ...
David , or Saul ; Or , wise little Solomon , wisest of all !Again , he's a pedlar ! a Chrift - killing Jew ! Nay , Random took pains to lible me too ; Such barbarous redicule hurted me fore , ' Till we came to anchor , and I got a shore ...
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almoſt alſo amongſt appear attend attorney beſt better blood book-keepers buſineſs called canes carry cattle cent commonly corn Creole cure dear drink eight eſtate favour feet field firſt five fond four frequently friends gentlemen give ground hands heart hero himſelf horſes houſe human hundred ignorant iſland Jamaica juſtice keep kind known ladies laſt leaſt liquor live manager manner maſter means merchants mind miſs Mongrel morning moſt muſt nature Naves negroes never night obliged obſerve once overſeers pain particularly perſon plantation planting pleaſe poor ſame ſay ſee ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſtock ſuch ſugar taken themſelves theſe thing thoſe thouſand till tion town turn uſe waſhed Weſt Indies whole wine wiſh women woods young yourſelf