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¬" You have raised an immortal monument of fame and glory by the abolition of the Slave Trade throughout the world, and will you suffer a worse slavery to debase even your own chil- dren, whose colour, if colour indeed can be a degradation, was not given by Heaven but by yourselves?"* ¬The religions of new countries having always been considered by travellers as interesting ob- jects of curiosity, I shall now make a few short remarks upon the Armatan church. ¬I found they had a Revelation as we have — Simple and eloquent, bearing throughout the stamp of divine truth, communicating, like our own, a fallen condition and a mediatorial re- demption^ — It is published by authority, and circulated as the universal source of faith and morals. Their forms of prayer are solemn and ¬* I have just heard with great satisfaction, that whatever may be the construction of houses in Armata, our own throughout all England will admit machinery. ¬impres- ¬