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HISTORY OF MAURITIUS. 
CHAPTER XXIV. 
Extracts from the Correspondence of Baron Grant , during the Years 1755, 1756, 
1 757 j *758 5 *759* —Extracts from Instructions to General Lolly and Count 
D’Ache , &c.—Further Extracts of the History of India during the seven Years 
War. 
The large body of materials already inserted in this Work, and the importance 
of those which are to follow, renders it absolutely necessary to abridge this cor¬ 
respondence. 
LETTER XIV. 
Isle of France, December, 1755. 
Baron Grant having, in the preceding year, lost his wife* and his second son, it 
became an object of great importance to him to send his only remaining sont into 
the bosom of his family, at Vaux in Normandy : accordingly, in this letter, he enters 
into those details respecting him, which may be expected from such an excellent 
father as he was; and, at the same, recommends to his relations to make all the 
necessary preparations for his own return. 
As his departure, however, did not take place till three years after, he enters into 
a detail of the works wtiich he had erected, with M. David, the former Governor, 
in order to make lime from coral; as well as of his plantations of cotton, and the 
large forges established by M. David, in conjunction with the Count de Rostaing 
and M. Hermans, See. Se c. Sec. 
“ M. Bouvet, the successor of M. David, this year quitted the Isle of France, and 
was succeeded by M. Mago, who began his government, by giving a general per- 
misson to cut wood, which threatened to injure that important object in the island.” 
Mademoiselle de Grenville. 
f The Viscount de Vaux. 
