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62 Notwithtanding the paions of men, and the quick circulation of cah amid uch butling cenes, it eldom happens that bae coin is ever found among the gains of the fortunate. The following; is the only intance, within my recollection, of it's being paired in the country:

A Seapoy, poed of fifty rupees, his ole treaure, was going from Calcutta to Patna; on the way, he met a man of genteel appearance, to whom, in the coure of a free converation, he unboomled himelf, and dicovered the bulk of his fortune. His fellow—traveller, who proved to be a coiner, oerved, that as his (the Seapoy's) rupees