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DEAN MAHOMET.
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and our women, though not ſo accompliſhed as thoſe of Europe, are ſtill very engaging for many virtues that exalt the ſex.
As I have now given you a ſketch of the manners of my country, I ſhall proceed to give you ſome account of myſelf.
I was born in the year 1759, in Patna, a famous city on the north ſide of the Ganges, about 400 miles from Calcutta, the capital of Bengal and feat of the Engliſh Government in that country. I was too young when my father died, to learn any great account of his family: all I have been able to know reſpecting him, is, that he was deſcended from
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