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DEAN MAHOMET.
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but once in the year, for a ſhort ſpace of time. After the death of a huſband, his wife puts on no mourning, and'diſrobing herſelf of all the ornaments of dreſs and jewels, wears only plain white muſlin. In the middle walk of life, the widow enjoy's the ſole property, which, making ſome reſerve for herſelf, ſhe generally divides in a very equitable manner, among her children: in more elevated ſituations, the ſon ſucceeds his father in rank or employment.
The Mahometans are ſtrict adherents to the tenets of their religion, which does not, by any means, conſiſt in that enthuſiaſtic veneration for Mahemet ſo generally conceived: it
conſiders
