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Rh pictures they preent to you: mark the limits of them more, than the boundaries which nature itelf has drawn out. My fields are cultivated; my villages fields of inhabitants; my territory a garden; and my ubjects-happy. From the ecurity I have given to property, my capital is the reort of the firt tracts of India; and the treaures of the Morattoes, the Jairs, and the Saiks, are depoited here, as well as thoe brought hither from the remotet borders of the eatern world. Hither the Widow and the, orphan convey their property, without dread from the violence of rapacity, or the gripe of avarice. The way-worn traveller, within