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 ¬to which their decisions and statutes had multi- plied, than hy relating an anecdote which, though it diverted me as a stranger, ought to be matter of painful consideration in Armata both for government and people. -Being much delighted, as I could not but be, with an outline of the law, so beautifully sim- ple, I expressed to my learned conductor the strongest desire to see the book in which their decisions and statutes were compiled and regis- tered for public instruction and the administra- tion of justice. — He smiled "very significant lyi saying he would carry me to where my curiosity should be indulged, and, in a few minutes after- wards, we arrived at a house, from whence I expected to carry home, under my arm, the volume I had been promised : — it was one of the great libraries of the country, being the property of a nobleman, in whose family books had been accumulating for centuries, and who preserved them in the utmost regularity and order. ¬k 4 We ¬