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DEAN MAHOMET.
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that deſolated a great part of the country of Indoſtan, at the time of the acceſſion of the Patan Princes, that Shah Johan had laid the foundation of this city in blood, the better (he obſerved) to cement the flames. This city receives no ſmall embeliſhment from the delightful gardens that ſurrond it; and forms it's principal entrance by a very wide ſtreet of a prodigious length, with arches on each ſide, for the purpoſe of ſtores and ware-rooms, to whichthe merchants and tradeſmen bring whatever is valuable or curious from all parts of India. This ſtreet, leads to the royal palace, at the outer gate of which, ſtand the figures of two huge elephants, with images mounted on them, repreſent-
