The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, Volum 3James Humphreys, 1806 |
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Pàgina 41
... thousand gallons each . But as powers of the extent described are uncommon , I shall rather confine myself to such properties as fall within the reach of daily observation ; to plan- tations , for instance , that make on a medium du ...
... thousand gallons each . But as powers of the extent described are uncommon , I shall rather confine myself to such properties as fall within the reach of daily observation ; to plan- tations , for instance , that make on a medium du ...
Pàgina 51
... thousand gallons , have this advan- tage over small ones ; that they are purchased at first at a less proportionate expense . A still of two thousand gallons , with freight and charges , will cost but little more than one of one ...
... thousand gallons , have this advan- tage over small ones ; that they are purchased at first at a less proportionate expense . A still of two thousand gallons , with freight and charges , will cost but little more than one of one ...
Pàgina 52
... thousand two hundred , and the other of six hundred gallons , wine measure , with proportionate pewter worms , are sufficient . The size of the tanks ( or tubs ) for containing the cold water in which the worms are immersed , must ...
... thousand two hundred , and the other of six hundred gallons , wine measure , with proportionate pewter worms , are sufficient . The size of the tanks ( or tubs ) for containing the cold water in which the worms are immersed , must ...
Pàgina 53
... thousand two hundred gallons . In Ja- maica , cisterns are made of plank , fixed in clay ; and are universally preferred to vats , or moveable vessels , for the purpose of fermenting . They are not so easily effected by the changes of ...
... thousand two hundred gallons . In Ja- maica , cisterns are made of plank , fixed in clay ; and are universally preferred to vats , or moveable vessels , for the purpose of fermenting . They are not so easily effected by the changes of ...
Pàgina 57
... thousand two hundred gallons ought to produce three hundred gallons of low wines ; and der alone answers every purpose . He likewise recommends to the distiller , to introduce into the fermenting cistern a few gallons of the rectified ...
... thousand two hundred gallons ought to produce three hundred gallons of low wines ; and der alone answers every purpose . He likewise recommends to the distiller , to introduce into the fermenting cistern a few gallons of the rectified ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 293 - Continuance of this article, the United States will prohibit and restrain the carrying any Molasses, Sugar, Coffee, Cocoa or Cotton in American vessels, either from His Majesty's Islands or from the United States, to any part of the World, except the United States, reasonable Sea Stores excepted.
Pàgina 263 - United States should be established on the most enlarged principles of reciprocal benefit to both countries...
Pàgina 292 - Article of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America...
Pàgina 292 - His Majesty consents that it shall and may be lawful, during the time hereinafter limited, for the citizens of the United States to carry to any of His Majesty's islands and ports in the West Indies from the United States, in their own vessels, not being above the burthen of...
Pàgina 215 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation the three estates of the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the peers and the Crown to a tax is only necessary to clothe it with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Pàgina 263 - United States of America upon a permanent foundation can be concluded: Now, for the purpose of making a temporary regulation of the commerce and intercourse between Great Britain and the said United States of America, and in order to evince...
Pàgina 200 - Crown, and it was laid down that ' all such laws and statutes of England, as have been at any time esteemed, Introduced, used, accepted or received as laws in this island, shall and are hereby declared to be and continue laws of this His Majesty's island of Jamaica for ever V Deputies of Ireland at the time.
Pàgina 146 - This tree is purely a child of nature, and seems to mock all the labours of man, in his endeavours to extend or improve its growth : not one attempt in fifty to propagate the young plants, or to raise them from the seeds, in parts of the country where it is not found growing spontaneously, having succeeded. The usual method of forming a new piemento plantation.
Pàgina 334 - To prohibit a great people, however, from making all that they can of every part of their own produce, or from employing their stock and industry in the way that they judge most advantageous to themselves, is a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of mankind.
Pàgina 329 - Britain among the rest) was commercial monopoly. The word monopoly in this case admitted a very extensive interpretation. It comprehended the monopoly of supply, the monopoly of colonial produce, and the monopoly of manufacture. By the first, the colonists were prohibited from resorting to foreign markets for the supply of their wants ; by the second, they were compelled to bring their chief staple commodities to the...