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Mauritius
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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volcanic island in the Indian Ocean, 550 m. E. of Madagascar, as large as Caithness, with mountains 3000 feet high, a tableland in the centre, and many short streams; the climate is cool in winter, hot in the rainy season, and subject to cyclones; formerly well wooded, the forests have been cut down to make room for sugar, coffee, maize, and rice plantations; sugar is the main export; the population is very mixed; African and Eastern races predominate; descendants of French settlers and Europeans number 110,000; discovered by the Portuguese in 1510, they abandoned it 90 years later; the Dutch held it for 112 years, and abandoned it in turn; occupied by the French in 1721, it was captured by Britain in 1810, and is now, with some other islands, a crown colony, under a governor and council.
n the NW., is the capital, and a British naval coaling station.
Public Domain.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Mauritius'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/m/mauritius.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
