HISTORY OF MAURITIUS. 
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entrance into the port, or to the west of the town. On the side of the channel, 
and before the entrenchments, are some salt-works. Within the entrenchment is 
the Bason des Tortues. 
The extreme part of the harbour, before the great hospital, is defended by 
another fort, which is distinguished by a flag. It is likewise furnished with heavy 
artillery. The powder magazine is situate on a small island, which is connected 
with the shore, by a causey almost opposite the governor’s house. This causey 
serves also for a quay; and it incloses a part of the great basin, where vessels 
enter to be careened. At the end of this causey, on the left, is a small inner basin 
for the refittal of vessels, and near it they take in their fresh water with the 
greatest convenience. Here also is the curious machine invented by M. de la Bour- 
donnois, by which vessels are lifted out of the water; so that they are cleaned and 
repaired with the utmost expedition. 
The place of arms and the parade is before the governor’s house; and behind the 
large buildings of the hospital is the Fort Sainte Barbe. 
Unfortunately Port Louis is choked up in different places by the hulls of several 
vessels, which have been lost from an ignorance of the navigation, which is now so 
well known.* Many of these dangerous circumstances, however, no longer exist, 
* The number of these hulls -amounts to thirty-four. The names of the greatest part of them 
are still remembered ; and their respective situations are marked in the chart of this port by M. 
D’Apres. They have been adopted, after him, by M. de Boisques.nay, officer in the French navy 
in 1775, as well as by Mr. Dalrymple in 1793.—The names of these vessels are as follows: 
a - 
La Renommee, 
P - 
L’lllustre, 
aa ■ 
- Le Mars, 
b - 
La Clotilde, 
q - 
Le Grantham, 
ab • 
- La Corisante, 
c - 
La Colomb, 
r - 
Le Desir, 
a c - 
. Le Moras, 
d - 
La Pierre, 
S'' - 
Le Machault, 
ad - 
• Les vaisseaux 
e - 
Le Bourbon, 
■t - 
Le Bertin, 
_ . 
Le Due d’Orleans, 
f - 
La Danae, 
u - 
L’Auguste, 
— - 
Le Due de Bourgogne, 
S - 
L’Aigle, 
V - 
Le Due d’Anjou, 
— - 
■ et les flutes La Reine, 
h - 
Le St. Phillipe, 
w - 
La Fulire, 
— - 
• et Le Silhouette. 
k - 
Le Maurepas, 
X - 
Le Choiseuil, 
1 - 
Le Walpole, 
y - 
Le Necessairc, 
rn - 
Le Centaure, 
z - 
La Penelope, 
n - 
Le Vigilant, 
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