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Rh with the Moguls and Moors, follow the old Eatern cutom of forming a black circle round their eye borders, by drawing a bodkin between them, with their eye-lids hut, that both ides may receive the tint of the tibium, or powder of antimony that ticks to the bodkin. The powder is called by them urma; which they imagine refrehes and cools the eye, beides exciting its lutre, by the ambient Blacknes. They avoid every deggree of affection in their manners, and copy nature, as their grand original, in the imitation and refinement of which, their art chiefly conits. Beides, they have nothing of that gros impudence which charaecteries the European proitutes;