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LETTER XIII.

DEAR SIR,

I SHALL now Proceed to give you ome account of the form of marriage among the Mahometans, which is generally olemnized with all the external how of Oriental pageantry. The parents of the young people, firt treat on the ubject of uniting them in the bands of wedlock, and if they mutually agree on a connection between them, the happy pair, who were never permitted to ee each other, nor even conulted about their union, are joined in marriage at a very ful