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MAURITIUS, situated just within the tropics and on an edge of the southern anticyclonic system, is in certain circumstances visited by tropical cyclones. Occasionally great damage to the growing sugar crops is done by such visitations, and though extremely violent storms are exceptional, yet the fact that they may and do occur makes the cyclone season one of dread and anxiety in the island. In the year 1892, for example, about one-half of the total crop was destroyed, to say nothing of damage to buildings, and other losses. True, this storm was one of quite unusual severity; but fear of a similar calamity tends, nevertheless, to have a paralysing effect upon the sugar industry. “Behind every attempt at improvements and every fresh outlay of capital, hovers the spectre of the 1892 disaster.”
The Sugar Industry of Mauritius: a Study in Correlation. Including a Scheme of Insurance of the Cane Crop against damage caused by Cyclones.
By A. Walter. Pp. xvi + 228. (London: A. L. Humphreys, 1910.) Price 12s. 6d. net.
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S., C. The Sugar Industry of Mauritius: a Study in Correlation Including a Scheme of Insurance of the Cane Crop against damage caused by Cyclones . Nature 87, 344 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087344a0
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