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LETTER XIV.

DEAR SIR,

THE Mahometans are, in general, a very healthful people: refraining from the ue of trong liquors, and accutomed to a temperate diet, they. have but few dieaes, for which their own experience commonly finds ome imple yet effectual remedy. When they are viited by icknes, they bear it with much compoure of mind, partly through an expectation of removing their diorder, by their own manner of treating it: but when they perceive their