« Remarks on the Gypsies, 71 



they are found only in Egypt, Nubia, Abyssinia. Soudan and 

 Barbary. They have never appeared in America. 



They are, most numerous in Spain, Ireland, Turkey and 

 Hungary, but especially in Transylvania, Moldavia, Wallachia, 

 Sclavonia, Courland, Lithuania, and the Caucasian provinces. 



In England they are still pretty numerous, but are found 

 only in distant places, seldom coming into the towns excepting 

 in small companies of two or three persons. In Germany, 

 Sweden and Denmark, they have become rare, as also in Swit- 

 zerland and the Low Countries. In Italy their numbers are di- 

 minished. In Spain it is said that there are fifty or sixty 

 thousand of them, and in Hungary, according to the best infor- 

 mation, about fifty thousand. In Transylvania, they are most 

 numerous, for in a population of 1,720,000 souls there are 

 reckoned 104,000- Tzengaris. We do not exaggerate in esti- 

 mating the Tzengarian or Gypsy population of Europe at nearly 

 a million : in Africa, at 400,000 ; in India, at 1,500,000 ; and 

 about 2,000,000 in all the rest of Asia, for except in Asiatic 

 Russia, China, Siam, Annan and Japan, they are every where 

 to be found. Hence we may deem the total population of these 

 people to he Jive millions. 



We have thus a considerable portion of the human race 

 thrown, as it were, beyond the common rights of nations ; so 

 many men wandering about without any cl^ms which can attach 

 them to the soil, encamping in places remote from civilization, 

 living by theft and deception, and every where diffused, not- 

 withstanding the persecution and contempt which are heaped 

 upon them. — G. Louis Domeny De Rienzt. 



UlECTRO-MAGNETfc EXPERIMENTS. CoinmuniccUed by the 



Author. 

 ( To the Editor of the Edinburgh Philosophical Jounml.) 



As there can be but few experiments which may not prove in- 

 teresting to some part of the scientific world, I send you some 

 of the particulars of one in which I have been lately engaged, 

 in case you should think them worthy of a place in your Journal. 

 It was my wish to have a very powerful magazine of the mag- 

 netic fluid, as a basis for some experiments intended to <le- 



