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their commerce, invited numbers to ſettle among them; and thus, by the introduction of arts, population, and induſtry, Surat became in a few years, one of the moſt conſiderable towns in the world. It is defended by a wall and towers, and has a ſquare caſtle with a tower at, each angle on the, S. W. part of it, which commands both the river, and the avenues to the town by land. It is ſaid to contain above two hundred thouſand inhabitants: while the Mogul government was in vigour, merchants of all religions and denominations were induced to take itſelf under it; and ſuch was the honeſty of the traders, that bags of money ticketted and ſealed, would. circulate for years without being
weighed
