The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita00recl Year: 1890 44 AUSTRALASIA. its former trade has been diverted elsewhere by the opening of the Suez Canal. Nevertheless, the exchanges still average considerably over £5,500,000 yearly ; the port is always crowded with shipping, and connected by regular steam service with Europe through the Suez Canal, as well as with Madagascar and Kéunion. Fig. 12.—Mauritius. Scale 1 : 750,000. Depths. 0 to 80 Feet. 0 to 640 Feet. 640 to Feet. Feet and upwards. IS Miles. The staple produce and exports are sugar and rum, the island posses
The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita00recl Year: 1890 44 AUSTRALASIA. its former trade has been diverted elsewhere by the opening of the Suez Canal. Nevertheless, the exchanges still average considerably over £5,500,000 yearly ; the port is always crowded with shipping, and connected by regular steam service with Europe through the Suez Canal, as well as with Madagascar and Kéunion. Fig. 12.—Mauritius. Scale 1 : 750,000. Depths. 0 to 80 Feet. 0 to 640 Feet. 640 to Feet. Feet and upwards. IS Miles. The staple produce and exports are sugar and rum, the island possessing over two hundred and fifty sugar mills, and forty distilleries, yielding on an average from fifty to eighty thousand tons of sugar, and five thousand gallons of rum, worth altogether from £160,000 to £200,000. Other articles of export are vanilla,
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