HISTORY OF MAURITIUS. 
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be effectually subdued; a fleet that should attack the Mauritius, on its way to the 
Indies, might cause essential injury to the French in that part of the world. 
" This is all that can be said on a project, which, at the moment, may appear 
chimerical; but in the course of a future war, it may, perhaps, be thought worthy 
of attention, and lay the foundation of an important acquisition to the British 
crown.’’ 
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