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tiles. This unfortunate race of human beings sometimes obtains 
an addition to their number when trespassers attempt to escape 
from the pursuit of justice, and to wind through the mazes of 
the inland navigation. These are handed over to the salt-pans, 
whence not one in a million ever returns. To arm persons of 
such a description, would be to afford them an immediate 
emancipation; and would subvert that establishment which sup- 
plies Bengal with salt, and affords to the government a revenue 
not much under a million of money annually! No doubt but 
time will furnish the means of substituting some less objec- 
tionable means of providing so indispensable an article of con- 
sumption, and do away what must, till then, be classed among the 
many necessary evils with which humanity is burthened ! 
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