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DEAN MAHOMET.
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rent pictures they preſent to you: mark the limits of them more, than the boundaries which nature itſelf has drawn out. My fields are cultivated; my villages fields of inhabitants; my territory a garden; and my ſubjects-happy. From the ſecurity I have given to property, my capital is the reſort of the firſt tracts of India; and the treaſures of the Morattoes, the Jairs, and the Saiks, are depoſited here, as well as thoſe brought hither from the remoteſt borders of the eaſtern world. Hither the Widow and the, orphan convey their property, without dread from the violence of rapacity, or the gripe of avarice. The way-worn traveller, within
