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LETTER XVII.

DEAR SIR,

ON our march from Denapore to Belgram, we halted ome days at Bananas, a rich and Populous city on the north ide of the Gauges, and celebrated for it's learning in pat time. There was once a very fine Obervatory here; and a few years ago, ome European Gentlemen, led hither by the love of cience and antiquity, dicovered a great many atronomical intruments of a large ize, admirably well contrived, though injured by the hand of time. It was uppoed they