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38 their commerce, invited numbers to ettle among them; and thus, by the introduction of arts, population, and indutry, Surat became in a few years, one of the mot coniderable towns in the world. It is defended by a wall and towers, and has a quare catle with a tower at, each angle on the, S. W. part of it, which commands both the river, and the avenues to the town by land. It is aid to contain above two hundred thouand inhabitants: while the Mogul government was in vigour, merchants of all religions and denominations were induced to take itelf under it; and uch was the honety of the traders, that bags of money ticketted and ealed, would. circulate for years without being weighed