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DEAN MAHAOMET
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LETTER XVII.
DEAR SIR,
ON our march from Denapore to Belgram, we halted ſome days at Bananas, a rich and Populous city on the north ſide of the Gauges, and celebrated for it's learning in paſt time. There was once a very fine Obſervatory here; and a few years ago, ſome European Gentlemen, led hither by the love of ſcience and antiquity, diſcovered a great many aſtronomical inſtruments of a large ſize, admirably well contrived, though injured by the hand of time. It was ſuppoſed
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