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DEAN MAHOMET.
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when they are off the guard, and adjoining to it; on the north, is a commodious hoſpital; at the other and is a mint, where the Company coin gold and ſilver. On the north ſide of the fort, is the Portugueſe church, and to the fourthward the Engliſh church, which is a neat elegant building; and moderately large: it is floored with black and white marble, the ſeats regular and convenient, and altogether, the moſt airy lightſome, temple any where to be found, for the windows are large and unglazed to admit, the cooling breezes in the warm ſeaſon.
Here is alſo a free ſchool, where childiren are educated in reading and writing; beſides which there is a
library.
