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164 traders and manufacturers, and e veral pagodas, or temples, of Hindoo worhip.

The treets in Beharas, are rather confined and narrow; and the houes, which are crowded together, are in general very high and flat at the top, where the inhabitants, in the cool hours of the day, enjoy the benefit of the air. In different parts of the town, there are tanks, or wells, for the ue of the citizens and the refrehment of paing trangers, who if indigence, are alo humanely upplied with food by perons employed to attend at the tanks felt this very purpoe. This city is well peepled, and perons of conequence, when they pear