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MAUEITITTS. 45aloe fibre, and cocoanut oil, the imp orts being European wares, rice from Bombay,maize and cattle from ITadagascar.The whole island is intersected by railways connecting the capital with thechief groups of plantations and residences of the wealthy classes. On the northeastKne, six miles from the capital, lie the sugar works of Pamplemousse, and closeby the famous garden, founded in 1768 by Poivre, for the cultivation of tropicalplants.Here are aome of the finest avenues in the world, and the place is still betterFig. 13.Poet Locis.Scale 1 : 125,000.640 Feet andupwards.known as the scene of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's " Paul and Virginia. "To thenorth-east lies the reef-fringed isle of Amber, where was wrecked the Saint-Giran,as related by this charming writer.Such also is the power of the popular imagination,that travellers are shown the very graves of the two lovers.The railway running from Saint-Louis towards the south-east traverses the"Wilhelm's Plains, where Curepipe, lying about the geometrical centre of the islandand 1,800 feet above the sea, has become the chief health resort in Mauritius.The experimental tea plantation of this district contained in 1887 over twelve