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DEAN MAHOMET.
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LETTER XXXV.
DEAR SIR.
A FEW months after our arrival at Chunargur, Captain Baker, diſcloſed his intentions of going to Europe: having a deſire of ſeeing that part of the world, and convinced that I ſhould ſuffer much uneaſineſs of mind, in the abſence of my beſt friend, I reſigned my commiſſion of Subidar, in order to accompany him. We took boat at Chunargur, and proceeded to Calcutta, by the way of Dacca, failing along the Ganges a diſtance of three hundred miles. Our paſſage was very agreeable, as
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