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PARSEES. 
The Parsees come from Bombay and 
Surat; some of the higher sort are great 
Merchants, the lower order are chiefly 
Shipwrights, and are esteemed excellent 
Workmen. They are a remarkable quiet 
well-behaved People; it is much to be 
wished that their numbers were augment¬ 
ed, which will certainly be the case, if 
the Shipping of this Port increases. 
The above enumerated are the principal 
classes of our Inhabitants who are not 
Christians; the remainder are composed 
of Bengalees, Achenese, Javanese, &c. Sc c. 
In the year 1797 > an account was taken 
of the Inhabitants, then resident on the 
Island, exclusive of Europeans and the 
Garrison, when the number was found 
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