. The earth and its inhabitants .. . W^...^^:J. Ã ieWtV <^^. ,.u\..^ ^â .Ah^'^-^. 3 Miles. gradually absorbed everything except a few ilettes or isolated plots in the upland valleys. The competition of European wares has hitherto prevented the development of any local manufacturing industries. No attempt has even been made to utilise the inexhaustible deposits of titanic iron thrown up by the waves on the beach at St. Leu, although these sands contain a mean proportion of over fifty per cent, of pure metal. Keunion has a small commercial fleet, but nearly all the foreign 4-0

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