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LETTER XXXVI.

DEAR SIR,

BEFORE we left Dacca, the Celebration of the fetival of two uppofed aints, whom the Mahometans call Haan, Huen, was commenced on the firt day of the new moon, and continued, with great olemnity, for ten days, The firt day, everal parties forming in different quarters of the town, aembled together in one pacious quare appointed for the general meeting, where they raied an extenive canopy on eight poles, in the centre of which