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LETTER XII.


DEAR SIR,

SHORTLY after the proceſſion, I met with a relation of mine, a Mahometan, who a requeſted my attendance at the circumſtance of one of his children. Previous to this ceremony, which I ſhall deſcribe in the order of ſucceſſion, it may be necaſſary to premiſe, that a child, is baptized three times according to the rites of his religion. The firſt baptiſt is performed at the time of he birth, by a.Bramin who, though of different religious principles, is held in the utmoſt veneration by the Ma-

hometans,