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 ¬ CHAPTER VI. ¬The Authors Remarks upon the Laus and Religion of Armata y and upon the Police of the Capital. ¬I now became anxious to be acquainted with the general character of the Armatan laws, which had acquired amongst strangers from all nations an unexampled reputation ; and I had not long been engaged in this interesting in- quiry, before 1 could see distinctly the cause of her progressive prosperity through so many ages, whilst other governments had been swept away in the storms of revolution. I deeply lament that my acquaintance with the language, though now amply sufficient for the common purposes of a traveller, was still too imperfect for the in- vestigation of so difficult a subject ; and that neither my education, nor the habits of my life in my own country, enabled me duly to com- prehend the information I received from the most accomplished lawyers to whom I had the advantage of being introduced. I shall there- fore be very short — all details indeed, had I been ¬competent ¬