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DEAN MAHOMET.
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with the Moguls and Moors, follow the old Eaſtern cuſtom of forming a black circle round their eye borders, by drawing a bodkin between them, with their eye-lids ſhut, that both ſides may receive the tint of the ſtibium, or powder of antimony that ſticks to the bodkin. The powder is called by them ſurma; which they imagine refreſhes and cools the eye, beſides exciting its luſtre, by the ambient Blackneſs. They avoid every deggree of affection in their manners, and copy nature, as their grand original, in the imitation and refinement of which, their art chiefly conſiſts. Beſides, they have nothing of that groſs impudence which charaecteriſes the European
proſitutes;
