268 GEOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF THE MAURITIUS. 
restoration. Our author quitted the Sand- 
heads on the 1st September and reached the 
sland on the 4th of October. He experienced 
rough weather nearly the whole way ; and, in 
consequence of the ship having been loaded 
with rice, the cabins were sufficiently offensive 
and warm to render the voyage disagreeable. 
Our author doubtless looked upon it with dis- 
gust. He makes no mention of it, but brings 
us at once to the heart- stirring animating re- 
port after a month at sea of land in sight. 
The lofty hills of the island and the high land 
of two or three small isles on its north were 
seen at a distance of forty miles : early in the 
morning he reached Bill Bay at the en- 
trance of the harbour. Our author does not 
attempt to amuse the reader with any at- 
tempt at the description of the scene on his 
arrival ; but enters at once upon a geographi- 
cal and statistical description of the place. 
“ According to the measurement of Abbe 
de la Caille, the island is about thirty-three 
miles long and twenty-one miles broad, in its 
extreme points of distance. Its form is not 
unlike a triangle, reckoning its southern shore : 
to be the base, and its face on the west ' 
and east, its two remaining sides. The ■ 
circumference of it was ascertained by the r 
Abbe de la Caille to be 93 miles. The above 1 
estimate and measurement I believe to be ji 
pretty correct, and suffciently accurate for j 
all geograpbical purposes. From the sea, > 
the island presents little more than a group !, 
of lofty and inaccessible mountains, having ii 
the most irregular shaped summits, and peaks 
exhibiting numerous isolated eminences jlj 
either pyramidical or in the form of ilbshap- [j 
ed pillars. The Petre-boite and the Pouce i| 
are conspicuous above the rest for their sin- I 
gularly elevated pillared tops ; judging } 
these as the centre around which the other ] 
hills are congregated, they may be consider- il 
ed as the highest in the island. They are 
both nearly of the same height ; the former ' 
is reckoned 420 fathoms, or 2520 feet high 
from the level of the sea. A table of the ; 
heights of the different mountains, and the si- ; 
tuation of the chief points of the island, is sub- 
joined, extracted from Grant’s History of the 
Mauritius, being the result of observations 
made by the Abb6 de la Caille.” ; 
Table of the Geographical Positions of the most remarJcahle Points in the Isle of France, with li 
the Height of its Mountains above the level of the Sea, according to the Geometrical opera- i; 
tions of° the Abb^ De La Caille, madeinthe Year 1753. j 
Summit of the Isle of Serpents, called Parasol or small round 
Isle, 
Summit of the Great Round Isle, 
Summit of le Coin de Mire, 
Point of Cannoniers, 
East point of the great Isle d’Ambre, 
Point of Rocke, 
Foot of the flag-staff on the first discovery of Ships, 
Foot of the flag-staff of the Long Mountain, 
Front of the New Church of Port Louis, 
Point of Flac, 
Foot of the flag- staff at the opening of Port Louis, 
Summit of the Mountain called Petrebotte, 
Summit of the Rock called Le Pouce, 
Point of the entrance of the Small River, 
Summit of the Piton de la Tayence 
Summit of the Mountain of the Corps de Garde, 
Point of the middle of the Isle, 
The Isle Rocheat, at water level, at the entrance of E. channel, 
P. Bourbon, 
Summit of the Mountain Du Rampart, 
The highest point of the Three Mamelles, 
Summit of the Mountain of Bamboo, 
Summit of the Mountain of the little Black River, 
Summit of the Mountain of Port Bourbon, 
Flag- staff of Port Bourbon, 
Middle of Isle Marie Anne, 
Middle of the Isle du Passage, 
Point of the Mountain of the little Black River, 
Summit of the Mountain of the port, 
Summit of the Morn du Brabant, 
Summit of the Mountain de le Savanne, 
South-east point of the Isle, 
South Lati- 
tude. 
East Longi- 
tude from 
London. 
Height above 
the sea, in 
fathoms. 
U 
19 48 55 
57 46 10 
S3 
19 50 34 
57 45 6 
165 
19 56 12 
57 34 37 
81 
19 59 50 
57 30 49 
20 2 9 
57 40 28 
20 2 39 
57 29 13 
20 6 44 
57 35 14 
134 
20 7 56 
57 29 51 
89 
20 9 45 
57 28 0 
20 9 49 
57 44 5 
20 10 8 
57 27 10 
166 
20 11 21 
57 30 48 
420 
20 11 40 
57 29 25 
416 
20 12 49 
57 21 14 
20 14 28 
57 39 13 
223 
20 15 22 
57 26 48 
369 
20 17 9 
57 33 10 
302 
20 17 26 
57 47 8 
20 18 2 
57 23 23 
396 
20 18 28 
57 24 42 
342 
20 18 57 
57 42 46 
322 
20 20 40 
57 20 13 
286 
20 21 29 
57 41 14 
249 
20 22 20 
57 41 9 
20 22 34 
57 45 3 
20 23 44 
57 43 51 
20 24 18 
57 22 7 
424 
20 26 50 
57 19 27 
309 
20 27 I 
57 17 ll, 
283 
20 27 2 
57 27 30 
355 
20 27 50 
57 16 8| 
