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DEAN MAHOMET
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LETTER XXVII.
DEAR SIR,
AS the practice of chewing betel is univerſal throughout India, the deſcription of it may not prove un-entertaining. It is e creeping plant cultivated in the ſame manner as the vine, with leaves full of large fibres like thoſe of the Citron, but longer and narrower at the extremity. It is mixed with the arek and chunam before it is uſed. The arek-nut is exactiy in form and bigneſs like a nutmeg, only harder: it is marbled in the inſide with white and reddiſh ſtreaks, and wrapped up in the leaf.
Chunam
