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DEAN MAHOMET.
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none fitted to well as thoſe whoſe plantations were watered by wells. The proprietors, form: of whom were Nabobs, and others European Officers, diſtributed as much rice and other food as they could poſibly ſpare, among the crowds that thronged into their court-yards; and houſes: but the poor creatures, quite ſpent and unable to bear it, fell down and expired in their preference: ſome endeavoured to crawl out, and periſhed in the open air. Little did the treaſures of their country avail them on this occaſion: a ſmall portion of rice, timely ad miniſtered to their wants, would have been of more real importance than their mines of gold and diamonds.
LETTER
