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LETTER XII.

DEAR SIR,

SHORTLY after the proceion, I met with a relation of mine, a Mahometan, who a requeted my attendance at the circumtance of one of his children. Previous to this ceremony, which I hall decribe in the order of ucceion, it may be necaary to premie, that a child, is baptized three times according to the rites of his religion. The ﬁrt baptit is performed at the time of he birth, by a.Bramin who, though of different religious principles, is held in the utmot veneration by the hometans,