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DEAN MAHOMET.
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heavy licenſe, and give amiale ſecurity for their obſervance of peace and good order. On ſuch occaſions, they generally keep police guards at their, houſes, to prevent diſputes among the adventurers. Before they enter on this buſineſs, every manager, or keeper of a gambling houſe, is ſupplied with a large ſum of money, for the accommodation of the gameſters, to whom he lends it out, on very advantageous conditions. The winner pays him in proportion to his gain, and the loſer ſecures him in the principal borrowed, with intereſt. Thus, by a rapid increaſe of growing profits, he accumulates, in a little time, vaſt riches.
Notwith-
