THE 
HISTORY OF MAURITIUS, 
OR THE 
ISLE OF FRANCE, 
AND 
THE NEIGHBOURING ISLANDS; 
FROM- 
THEIR FIRST DISCOVERY TO THE PRESENT TIME; 
COMPOSED PRINCIPALLY FROM THE PAPERS AND MEMOIRS OF 
BARON GRANT, 
WHO RESIDED TWENTY YEARS IN THE ISLAND, 
BY HIS SON, CHARLES GRANT, VISCOUNT DE VAUX. 
ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES, 
Suave mari magno turbantibus sequora ventis 
E terra magnum alterius spectare laborem. 
Non quia vexari quemquam est jucunda voluptas ; 
Sed, quibus ipse malis careas quia cernere suave est. Lucretius. 
LONDON: 
PRINTED BYW.BULMER AND CO. CLEVELAND-ROW, ST. JAMESES, 
FOR THE AUTHOR ,* 
AND SOLD BY G. AND W. NICOL, BOOKSELLERS TO HIS MAJESTY, 
PALL-MALL ; J. WRIGHT, PICCADILLY ; AND B. UPHILL, 
BRYDGES-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN. 
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