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Rh none fitted to well as thoe whoe plantations were watered by wells. The proprietors, form: of whom were Nabobs, and others European Officers, ditributed as much rice and other food as they could poibly pare, among the crowds that thronged into their court-yards; and houes: but the poor creatures, quite pent and unable to bear it, fell down and expired in their preference: ome endeavoured to crawl out, and perihed in the open air. Little did the treaures of their country avail them on this occaion: a mall portion of rice, timely ad minitered to their wants, would have been of more real importance than their mines of gold and diamonds.

LETTER