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people, both Hindus and Mufulmans, fpeak a dialecl 

 very little different from that of Agra-^nA Dehly. The 

 Mufulmans form a very conliderable portion of the in- 

 habitants, and of their number a great part is coni- 

 pofed of particular clafs, here known by the name of 

 Bohrah, They diftinguifh their own feet by the tit.e 

 of Ifmaeeliah, deriving their origin from one of tie 

 followers of the prophet, named Ismaeel, who i.u- 

 rifhed in the age immediately (ucceeding that of :... a- 

 HOMMED. This lingular clafs of people forms a .Lry 

 large fociety, fpread over all the countries of the .je~ 

 can, particularly the large towns. /S?//??/ contains O'l 00 

 families, and the number in Oujein amounts to 1500. 

 But the head-quarters of the tribe is at Burhci}ipoof\ 

 where their moulUih or high-pricft rehdes. The fociety 

 carries on a very ex.tcnlive and multifarious commerce, 

 in all thole countries over which its members are dif- 

 perfed, and a certain proportion of all their gains is ap- 

 propriated to the maintenance of the vwullah, whofe 

 revenue is confequently ample. He is paramount in 

 all ecclelialfical matters, and holds the keys of paradife ; 

 it beino; an eftablilhed article of faith that no man can 

 enter the regions of blifs without a pailport from the 

 high prieft, who receives a handfome gratuity for 

 every one he iigns. But he alfo exercifes a temporal 

 jurifdiclion over his tribe, wherever difperfed, and this 

 authority is admitted by the various governments under 

 whofe dominion they relidr, as an encouragement to 

 thefe people who form the moft induilrious and ufeful 

 clafs of the inhabitants. A younger brother of the 

 moullali relides at Oujebi, and with that fame title exer- 

 cifes over the Bohrahs relident there the authority, fpi- 

 ritual and temporal, annexed to the office. Five mo- 

 hillahs of the city are inhabited by them, and fubje(5l 

 to his jurifdidlion. 



Ox our arrival at Onje'w, we had plenty of excellent 

 grapes from BurJuhtpoor. By the time this fupply was 

 cxhaulledj the grapes produced at Oujmi came into 



feafon. 



