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 49
... turn- ing up the ladle , and obferving the white grain on the bottom thereof , the boilers know when it is fufficiently boiled , and fit to be taken off ; there are many gradations to be obferved in boiling of fugar ; fuch as fufficient ...
... turn- ing up the ladle , and obferving the white grain on the bottom thereof , the boilers know when it is fufficiently boiled , and fit to be taken off ; there are many gradations to be obferved in boiling of fugar ; fuch as fufficient ...
الصفحة 51
... turn to go to bed nightly at eight or nine o'clock , P. M. I was roufed with the dreadful alarm of " fpell's called maffa , " at high twelve , and obliged to fit up until eight or nine o'clock next night ; or if it was my weekly turn to ...
... turn to go to bed nightly at eight or nine o'clock , P. M. I was roufed with the dreadful alarm of " fpell's called maffa , " at high twelve , and obliged to fit up until eight or nine o'clock next night ; or if it was my weekly turn to ...
الصفحة 52
... turn ropy and fpoil , after which , if they are fet , they will prevent the other fweets from yielding a due pro- portion of rum , and will fet the diftill - houfe foul , by yielding bad lees ; for lees is a principal part of the ...
... turn ropy and fpoil , after which , if they are fet , they will prevent the other fweets from yielding a due pro- portion of rum , and will fet the diftill - houfe foul , by yielding bad lees ; for lees is a principal part of the ...
الصفحة 95
... turn them out early in the morning in fome fhort green grass pasture , and to keep them under some shade in the heat of the day . Guinea or India corn ground is the best food ; and as they are fubject to the yaws , a dif- temper very ...
... turn them out early in the morning in fome fhort green grass pasture , and to keep them under some shade in the heat of the day . Guinea or India corn ground is the best food ; and as they are fubject to the yaws , a dif- temper very ...
الصفحة 100
... turn vendue master ; the five per cent . commiffion on all goods he dif poses of is fure and fafe profit , and in time he may make fome money , get credit , and turn merchant ; indeed any huckfter or grog - fhop keeper with care ...
... turn vendue master ; the five per cent . commiffion on all goods he dif poses of is fure and fafe profit , and in time he may make fome money , get credit , and turn merchant ; indeed any huckfter or grog - fhop keeper with care ...
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