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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. 



to 80 

 Feet. 



to 640 

 Feet. 



640 to 3.200 

 Feet. 



3.200 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, 



