10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MEGASS»
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EAST INDIA AFFAIRS-CHINA CORRESPONDENCE
Mount Pleasant — Megass-house, coopers'-shop, and lumber-house destroyed ;
boiling, still, and mill-houses injured ; 25 negro-houses destroyed, 25 damaged.
Brighton — Out-offices, pens, and several negro-houses destroyed ; 1 2 ...
2
House of Commons Papers
"What description of labour do the young gene- Carrying dry megass for fuel
when grinding; rally perform ? driving the cattle attached to the cane plants ; On
all the estates one or two drams are given AFFAIRS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 237.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1841
3
Bulletins and Other State Intelligence
Calder Ridge — All the works and overseer's-house, mule-pen, and megass-
house down ; several negro- houses destroyed. Calder — Boiling-house
unroofed ; overseer's-house, mule-pen, and a megass-house, with several negro
- houses, ...
4
Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood
On Saturday they were again ordered to carry "megass," but refused to do so.
They told the manager that other carriers should be assigned to do the job, "as it
was the custom that those who carried megass should, after doing that duty for
two ...
Emília Viotti Viotti da Costa, 1997
5
The Anti-slavery Reporter
James's story was to this effect : On Friday he had been throwing green megass, (
the sugar cane after the juice had been expressed by grinding and which is used
as fuel when dry) out of doors, the megass houses being full. On Saturday he ...
6
Vegetable Plants and Their Fibres as Building Materials: ...
The fibres studied were megass (the husk from sacharus-officinarum). Megass is
the product from the first part of the process for obtaining sugar from this plant,
this husk (megass) is usually used for making paper, for cattle feed, or as fuel.
7
The Anti-slavery Reporter
James's story was to this effect : On Friday he had been throwing green megass, (
the sugar cane after the juice had been expressed by grinding and which is used
as fuel when dry) out of doors, the megass houses being full. On Saturday he ...
8
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom
... directly from the cane on its first crushing. The water thus employed would
serve for many successive portions of megass, until at length it became so richly
loaded with saccharine matter as to be worth attention in the boiling-house; or, ...
9
Queensland Agricultural Journal Volume 5
1 believe the manufacture of this product could be successfully started in this
colony, and I do not think that a better foundation material could be found than
finely crushed megass irom a sugarmill. Megass by itself has only a very slight ...
of good steam coal is usually assumed to be equal to 4 tons of megass, so that
the full value of the latter cannot exceed 7s. 6a'. per ton. Deducting this there
remains an estimated profit of £1 12s. 6a'. per' ton of megass coverted into paper.
Bombay (Presidency). Dept. of Land Records and Agriculture, 1914
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