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 40
... woods yield choice timber , fit for almoft all uses ; fuch as locuft , maftic , bull - tree , dog- wood , brafilitto , mahogany and cedars , as huge and lofty as the cedars of Lebanon ; alfo lignum- vitæ , which yields that valuable ...
... woods yield choice timber , fit for almoft all uses ; fuch as locuft , maftic , bull - tree , dog- wood , brafilitto , mahogany and cedars , as huge and lofty as the cedars of Lebanon ; alfo lignum- vitæ , which yields that valuable ...
الصفحة 41
... wood - peckers , and doves of various kinds the mournful cooing of the latter thrills moft charmingly through the ears . The woods afford fhelter for vaft numbers of wild cattle and fwine , and fome deer : I have fometimes shot a fat ...
... wood - peckers , and doves of various kinds the mournful cooing of the latter thrills moft charmingly through the ears . The woods afford fhelter for vaft numbers of wild cattle and fwine , and fome deer : I have fometimes shot a fat ...
الصفحة 45
... appearance of the tops and ftalks . It often happens , that through the neglect of the manager , to his difgrace , and that of the D3 attorney attorney for fuffering it , wood for fire and other OF THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 45.
... appearance of the tops and ftalks . It often happens , that through the neglect of the manager , to his difgrace , and that of the D3 attorney attorney for fuffering it , wood for fire and other OF THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 45.
الصفحة 46
J. B. Moreton. attorney for fuffering it , wood for fire and other neceffaries are not prepared in time : there are many preparations to be made for crop ; the cop- pers and ... wood pofts , fix or feven feet high 46 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
J. B. Moreton. attorney for fuffering it , wood for fire and other neceffaries are not prepared in time : there are many preparations to be made for crop ; the cop- pers and ... wood pofts , fix or feven feet high 46 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.
الصفحة 47
... wood , and coged all round , and fupported on the mill bed , about eighteen inches from the ground , on small pieces of metal about the fize and shape of whipping - tops , called capoufes ; the main or middle roller , being filled with ...
... wood , and coged all round , and fupported on the mill bed , about eighteen inches from the ground , on small pieces of metal about the fize and shape of whipping - tops , called capoufes ; the main or middle roller , being filled with ...
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