86 Mr Cadeirs Description of the Hindoo Bellows. 



trade of smith is the principal and most frequent trade of that 

 poor wandering tribe, and they practise it in various parts of 

 Europe*. The Indian origin of the gipsies is indicated by their 

 language. For Grellman and Mr Marsden have shewn, that 

 the language of the gipsies, in its words and inflections, re- 

 sembles the Hindostanee, of which it may be considered to be a 

 dialect, and the affinity of the two languages has been confirm- 

 ed by other philologists -f. Grellman infers, that the gipsies 

 came from Hindostan ; he conjectures, from their manners and 

 occupations, that they were of the lowest cast of Hindoos, and 

 supposes that they left their country when Timour invaded In- 

 dia in 1409 ; they are first mentioned as making their appear- 

 ance in Moldavia, Wallachia, Hungary and Germany, in 1417. 



Explanation of Plate II. 



The uppermost figure is a projection on a horizontal plane, and 

 shews the bellows composed of two leather bags, with their 

 wooden lips. The loop on the inner lip of each pair is for re- 

 ceiving the hand. 



The lower figure is a projection on a vertical plane, in which only 

 one of the leather bags is seen ; the other being concealed be- 

 hind it. 



venot. Bohemiens in France, because it is said the first account of them in 

 that country came from Bohemia. Heyden, i. e. Heathens, in Holland. Tar- 

 tars, in Denmark. Sisech, Hindoo, i. e. Black Hindoos, by the Persians. 

 Amongst the names they gave their own tribe is Sinte, which is supposed to 

 be from the river Sind or Indus — Grellman's Dissertation. Adelung's Mithri- 

 dates. 



• In Transylvania the gipsies carry on another branch of metallurgy, the 

 art of washing gold from the sand. Von Born briefe Uber mineralogische 

 gegenstande : Friedwaldsky, Mineralogia Transilvaniae, in cap. de auri lotura. 



•j* A Dissertation on the Gipsies, by H. M. G. Grellmann, Professor at Got- 

 tingen, translated from the German by Mathew Raper, Esq. 1787* 



Observations on the Language of the Gipsies, by W. Marsden, Esq. ; Col- 

 lections on the Gipsy Language, by Jacob Bryant, Esq. Both these papers 

 are in the Archaeologia, vol. vii. 1785. 



Pallas, in the Neue nordische Beytrage, Th. 3. remarks, tliat their lan- 

 guage resembles the dialect of the Indian traders he saw at Astrakan. These 

 Indians were from Multan, a country situated on the Indus. 



Adelung's Mithridates. 



