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ſide to their gardens, where fountains, caſcades, meandering rills, and Variegated flower beds, form the moſt delightful aſſemblage of rural beauty and proſpect. In ſummer, they often go in parties, to country receſſes, a little way out of town, in order to enjoy themſelves in their freſcades, by the ſide of the Waters with which they are furniſhed. The Engliſh have a very pleaſant garden here, for the uſe and recreation of the Gentlemen of the factory.
The ſtreets of Surat are irregularly laid out; and the ſtories of the houſes are carried up projecting over one another, in ſuch a manner, that the uppermoſt apartments on each ſide, are ſo cloſe, as to darken
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