sugar-plantations

Thus it appears that this great basin extends through so many degrees of latitude that its lakes and streams connect with the mineral regions and pine forests of the North, the wheat - and corn-lands and cattle-ranges of the Middle States, and the cotton-and sugar-plantations of the

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

The Esquimaux fattens on his diet of blubber and train-oil; the slaves on the sugar-plantations grow fat in the boiling-season, when they live heartily on sugar; the Chinese grow fat on an exclusively rice diet, -- and rice is chiefly starch.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

We passed sugar-plantations with their wide cane-fields, the sugar-houses with tall chimneys, and the balconied house of the administrador, keeping a sharp look out over the village of negro-cabins, arranged in double lines.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

A scheme had been devised for seizing all the sugar-plantations of Great Britain.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

These were to doze and smoke in hammocks, and to cultivate listlessly about twenty-two dilapidated sugar-plantations and a little coffee.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various

United States, and had but a short time since left the live-oak forests and sugar-plantations of Louisiana.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

For many years the story of this settlement and of the handful of neighboring sugar-plantations is one of privateer raids, capture, torture, slave-revolts, disease, bad government, and small profits, until we marvel at the perseverance of these sturdy Hollanders.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

Mr. Barrett's fortune was invested in sugar-plantations in Jamaica.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

His sugar-plantations prospered, too, and Pancho Cueto, who managed them, continued to wonder where the money went.

Rainbow's End Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

The grants of title from the crown for this quinta and the sugar-plantations, they are there, too.

Rainbow's End Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913