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The best roads were only wide paths. People moved on foot, on horse back and in palanquins.
Sir Robert Farquhar built many roads to facilitate travelling and transportation of goods.
He built the main road from Port Louis to Mahébourg and to Souillac. Many other paths
were made into good roads.
1. (a) Name three crops grown in the island when the British captured Ile de France.
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(b)Sir Robert Farquhar encouraged the cultivation of a crop.
(i) Name this crop.
(ii) Why did he encourage the cultivation of that crop?
(c) Write the words in the correct order to show the development of roads.
roads paths wide paths
forests
(d)Who built the main road from Port Louis to the South? Why?
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ACTIVITY 4.2