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*' become the most abominable and degrading system of 

 " oppression ever invented bj tlie craft of designing men." 

 ^ " Passive millions drag a feeble existence under the iron 

 " rod of a few crafty casts amidst a climate and a soil al- 

 " most paradisiacal, and where it seemed impossible for 

 " human malignity to have introduced general degradation 

 " and distress."* 



From the immense population of this country, many may 

 still infer that its inhabitants enjoy no small share of happi- 

 ness, yet in addition to what I have observed on this head, in 

 treating of the Egyptian government, the vicinity of Vesu- 

 vius, notwithstanding its frequent eruptions is as populous as 

 any other part of the Neapolitan kingdom. 



Of the Mahometan Governments. 



These extend over a great part of the old world, and arc 

 every where so cruel, harsh and hostile to human happiness, 

 that the epithet Barbarian has by all Christian nations been 

 exclusively applied to them. I shall notice only two, the 

 Turkish and the Persian as the Mogul and African govern- 

 ments differ from them only in a few particulars. That of 

 Egypt is rather a cruel anarchy. 



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• Pinkeiton's Geography, Vol. 2. p. 24S. 



