 | Bryan Edwards - Bahamas - 1806 - 372 pages
...now return to the curing-house, which is a large airy building, provided with a capacious mellasses cistern, the sides of which are sloped and lined with...empty hogsheads, without headings, are ranged. In the bottoms of these hogsheads eight or ten holes are bored, through each of which the stalk of a plantain... | |
 | Robert Renny - Enslaved persons - 1807 - 366 pages
...::r.^y £135] The curing-house is a large airy building, provided with a capacious melasses-cistern, the sides of which are sloped and lined with terras,...empty hogsheads, without headings, are ranged. In the bottoms of these hogsheads, eight or ten holes are bored, through each of which is thrust the stalk... | |
 | Robert Renny - Enslaved persons - 1807 - 368 pages
...it. [ 135 ] The curing-house is a large airy building, provided with a capacious melasses-cistern, the sides of which are sloped and lined with terras,...boards. Over this cistern, there is a frame of massy joist- work without boarding. On the joists of this frame, empty hogsheads, without headings, are ranged.... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - 1819 - 638 pages
...return to the curing-house, which is CHAP. a large airy building, provided with a capacious melasses cistern, the sides of which are sloped and lined with...empty hogsheads, without headings, are ranged. In the bottoms of these hogsheads eight or ten holes are bored, through each of which the stalk of a plantain... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Chemistry - 1821 - 428 pages
...quarter of an inch long generally determines the proper boiling height for strong muscovado sugar.* . The curing-house is a large airy building', provided...which are sloped and lined with terras, or boards. A frame of massy joistwork without boarding, is placed over this cistern; and empty hogsheads without... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Chemistry - 1821 - 418 pages
...quarter of an inch long generally determines the proper boiling height for strong muscovado sugar.* The curing-house is a large airy building, provided...cistern, the sides of which are sloped and lined«™ terras, or boards. A frame of massy joistwork without boarding, is placed over tira cistern; and empty... | |
 | Thomas Gill (patent-agent) - 1823 - 482 pages
...skill, in a matter depending wholly on constant practice. I now return to the curing-house ; which is a large airy building, provided with a capacious...boards. Over this cistern there is a frame of massy joist- work, without boarding. On the joists of this frame, empty hogsheads, without headings, are... | |
 | Luke Herbert - Industrial arts - 1825 - 396 pages
...is that of striking, which consists in ladling the thick liquor into the cooler. The uurinff-tuntse is a large airy building, provided with a capacious...which are sloped and lined with terras or boards. A frame of massive joist work without boarding is placed over this cistern; and empty hogsheads without... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1827 - 510 pages
...the molasses. From the cooler it is taken to the curing-house, where the molasses drains from it. ' The curing-house is a large airy building, provided...which are sloped and lined with terras or boards. A frame of massy joint-work, without boarding, is placed over this cistern ; and empty hogsheads, without... | |
 | Library - 1827 - 742 pages
...from the molasses. From the cooler it is taken to the curing-house, where the molasses drains from it. The curing-house is a large airy building, provided...which are sloped and lined with terras or boards. A frame of massy joint-work, without boarding, is placed over this cistern ; and empty hogsheads, without... | |
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The curing-house is a large airy building, provided with a capacious melasses-cistern, the sides of which are sloped and lined with terras, or boards. Over this cistern, there is a frame of massy joist-work without boarding. On the joists of this frame,... 