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LETTER XXV.

DEAR SIR,

AS an intance of the wealth and conequence that aggrandize any ituation, where trade is introduced, I hall give you ome account of Surat, which lies in twenty-one degrees, thirty minutes, north latitude; and eventy-two degrees eat longitude from the meridian of London.

About the middle of lat century this place was only the reort of a few merchants, who by extending their