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DEAN MAHOMET.
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manufactories of ſilk and cotton, where merchants can be ſupplied on better terms than in any other part of India. The city of Muxadabad, to which I had been led by curioſity, is the mart of an extenſive trade among the natives, ſuch as the Moguls, Parſees, Muſ ſulmen, and Hindoos; the houſes are neat, but not uniform; as every dwelling is conſtructed according to the peculiar fancy of the proprietor: thoſe of the merchants are in general: on a good plan, and built of fine brick made in the country and ſuch as have been, erected by the ſervants of the Company, near the town, are very handſome ſturctures. The city, including the ſuburbs, is about nine miles in
length,
