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DEAN MAHOMET.
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Ala-, are very delightful; when the rains are over, not a cloud is to be ſeen in the azure Heavens, and the heat of torrid time is frequently tempered by the breath of fanning gales, which Providence occaſionally permits to pant, on the boſom of the ſultry air. Vegetation is ſo rapid, that it ſeems almoſt perceptible to the eye; and the naked plains, which appeared, but a week before, to be only abroad ſurface of ſand, are inſtantly clothed by the benignity of thoſe tears ſhed from above, with the verdant robe of blooming nature. The face of the country is entirely changed; even the marſhy grounds that had. been covered with water, produce their golden harveſts; and the luxuriant
earth,
