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 ¬to the adjoining apartment, I found a supper of twelve covers prepared for us, and a mixed company of men and women, apparently most accomplished; but being then an utter stranger to the language, I shall postpone all my obser- vations upon Armatian society till I have to speak hereafter of the manners and amusements of the capital ; yet I cannot pass over that the women I saw were most beautiful, several of them singing delightfully, and that, from their address and manner of speaking, it was well, perhaps, for my repose, that I could not under- stand what they said. — The reader, indeed, will have to condole with me hereafter that I ever became more susceptible. ¬ CHAP-