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DEAN MAHOMET.
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though very different in their qualities: the water of the one which; is of a whitiſh colour, having an agreeable cool taſte, while that of the adjacent well being of a darker hue, is continually boiling up. The people of the country make the moi}: frequent uſe of them, and the Bramins, who diſpatch their orders to all quarters round them in earthen jars filled at their hallowed founts, conſiderably benefit by their pious credulity. They even ſend it to the north of the Gauges; and it is held in holy veneration by the Hindoos in Calcutta, and the other diſtricts of Bengal.
As we were advancing on our march, we met a number Hinndoo
pilgrims
