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DEAN MAHOMET.
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LETTER XXIV.



DEAR SIR,

HAVING received orders to march to Calcutta, we quitted Belgram; and finding it unneceſſary to keep a force any longer there, on account of the good underſtanding that prevails, at preſent, between the Court of Delhi and the Eaſt India Company, the chaumnies were entirely demoliſhed, and every'veſtige of a houſe or building razed to the ground.

On our way, we paſſed by ſome factories belonging to the Dutch, Danes, French, and others,

that