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DEAN MAHOMET.
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LETTER XXXVIII.
DEAR SIR,
HAVING paſſed through a variety of ſcenes in India, we left Calcutta in January 1784, and went by water to Belcoor, a little village about twelve miles down the river, where a Daniſh Eaſt-Indiaman, commanded by a Captain Duck, bound for Copenhagen, lay at anchor waiting for the paſſengers, who embarked with us, and proceeded on our Voyage for Europe. The weather being fine, and the wind
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