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LETTER XVIII.

DEAR SIR,

YOU will now expect from me, an account of the Hindoos, the natives of this century; who are claed into four tribes, namely, Bramins, Sittri, Bice, and Sudder. The Bramins, or firt clas, which are eteemed the mot ancient and, honourable, are the Priets, the Intructors and Philoophers: the, Sittri, or econd clas, are the military, who are entruted with the defence and government of the tate; in war, the oldiers who fight it's battles; in peace, the magitrates and