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DEAN MAHOMET.
37
LETTER XXV.
DEAR SIR,
AS an inſtance of the wealth and conſequence that aggrandize any ſituation, where trade is introduced, I ſhall give you ſome account of Surat, which lies in twenty-one degrees, thirty minutes, north latitude; and ſeventy-two degrees eaſt longitude from the meridian of London.
About the middle of laſt century this place was only the reſort of a few merchants, who by extending
their
