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LETTER XXVII.

DEAR SIR,

AS the practice of chewing betel is univeral throughout India, the decription of it may not prove un-entertaining. It is e creeping plant cultivated in the ame manner as the vine, with leaves full of large fibres like thoe of the Citron, but longer and narrower at the extremity. It is mixed with the arek and chunam before it is ued. The arek-nut is exactiy in form and bignes like a nutmeg, only harder: it is marbled in the inide with white and reddih treaks, and wrapped up in the leaf. Chunam