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the tafte of which, he fays, is like this, having drunk 
of both. 
The road from the borders of the Chetagou pro- 
vince to the city was a bank caft up, on one fide of 
which were rice fields, and it is paiTable in the wet 
feafon ; but, from Luckipore, where we have a fmali 
fadtory, to the bounds of Chetagou, it is almoll: a 
fwamp, and is only paffable by boats, during the 
rains. 
The city of Iflamabad is a mere neft of beggars, 
peftered with the itch ; the country hilly, and the foil 
loofe fand, till you defcend into the paddy, or rice 
fields. The city is fortified with wretched mud walls, 
without a cannon of any fort belonging to it. He de- 
fcribes part of the country about Chetagou, and before 
they come to it, as rich, in a fine foil, and luxuriant 
fertility : the inhabitants of which wei e, notwith- 
ftanding, miferably poor and wretched, owing to the 
great exactions from the Nabob of Bengal, the Rajah, 
who governs there, and the ufual defending delegated 
oppreflions, pradtifed by eaflern defpotifm. 
Hhh 2 
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