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Rh and our women, though not o accomplihed as thoe of Europe, are till very engaging for many virtues that exalt the ex.

As I have now given you a ketch of the manners of my country, I hall proceed to give you ome account of myelf.

I was born in the year 1759, in Patna, a famous city on the north ide of the Ganges, about 400 miles from Calcutta, the capital of Bengal and feat of the Englih Government in that country. I was too young when my father died, to learn any great account of his family: all I have been able to know repecting him, is, that he was decended from the