HISTORY OF MAURITIUS. 
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Colonial Commodities which the Isle of France may produce in 1800. 
Price during the present war, 
Coffee, - 6000 bales, of 100 pounds French, from 8 to 20 piastres the bale. 
Indigo, - 300,000 pounds weight, good year, from 2 to 8 shillings per lb. 
Cotton, - 2000 bales of 250 pounds, - from 8 pence to 2 shillings per lb. 
Raw sugar, 20,000,000 pounds weight, - from 4 to ten piastres the quintal. 
Cloves, - 20,000 pounds, - - from 3- to 1 piastre per lb. 
The Isle of Bourbon, at present called Reunion. 
Coffee, about 60,000 bales. 
Cotton, 2,000 bales. 
Two or three sugar plantations for the consumption of the island. 
Cloves, 60,000 lb. 
New Division of the Isle of France.* 
No. 1. Municipality of the North-west Port, extends from the river des Lataniers, 
the boundary of the Municipality of Moka, to the Grande riviere. 
No. 2. Municipality of Pamplemousses—from the river des Lataniers , the limits 
of the municipality of Moka, of the Three Islets, and of the riviere du Rempart , 
as far as the Great Bay. 
No. 3. Municipality du Rempart —from the Grande Baie i the boundary of the 
municipality des Pamplemousses , and of the Three Islets, as far as the French river. 
No. 4. Municipality of Flack—from the French river, the boundary of the mu¬ 
nicipality of the Three Islets, to the riviere Seche. 
No. 5. Municipality of the Three Islets—from la riviere Seche , the boundary 
of the municipality of Flack, of the Rempart, of Pamplemousses, and of Moka, to 
the Deep river, or Great river of the Great Port. 
then become uninhabitable. It is high time to remedy it. There is still more than half the island 
covered with most beautiful woods, and it would be very impolitic to let one of the finest and most 
productive spots of the globe be destroyed, blest as it is with an healthy climate and magni¬ 
ficent harbours. Finally, the greatest advantages might be derived from it were the inhabitants 
richer, or less eager to make rapid fortunes. 
* This new division is marked on the Map of the Isle of France, placed at the beginning of the 
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