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bridgeshire, Oxfordshire, War- 

 wickshire, Wiltshire, and Dorset- 

 shire, greater numbers are cal- 

 culated upon. In various coun- 

 ties, the attention has not been 

 competent to the procuring data 

 for any estimate of families or in- 

 dividuals. 



" 9. More than half their num- 

 ber follow^ no business : others 

 are dealers in horses and asses ; 

 farriers, smiths, tinkers, braziers, 

 grinders of cutlery.basket-makers, 

 chair-bottomers, and musicians. 



" 10. Children are brought up 

 in the habits of their parents, 

 particularly to music and dancing, 

 and are of dissolute conduct. 



"^11. The women mostly carry 

 baskets with trinkets and small 

 wares ; and tell fortunes. 



" 1^. Too ignorant to have 

 acquired accounts of genealogy, 

 and perhaps indisposed to it by 

 the irregularity of their habits. 



" 13. In most counties there 

 are particular situations to which 

 they are partial. In Berkshire is 

 a marsh, near Newbury, much 

 frequented by them ; and Dr. 

 Clarke states, that in Cambridge- 

 shire their principal rendezvous 

 is near the western villages. 



" 14. It cannot be asceitained, 

 whether, from their first coming 

 into the nation, attachment to 

 particular places has prevailed. 



" 15, 16, and I7. When among 

 strangers, they elude inquiries re- 

 specting their peculiar language, 

 caUing it gibberish. Don't know 

 of any person tliat can write it, or 

 of any written s])erinien of it. 



" 18. Their habits and customs 

 in all places are peculiar. 



" 19. Those who profess any 

 religion represent it to be that 



of the country in which they re- 

 side : but their description of it 

 •eldom goes beyond lepeating the 

 Lord's prayer ; and only few of 

 them are capable of that In- 

 stances of their attending any 

 place for worship are very rare. 



" 20. They anarry for the most 

 part by pledging to each other, 

 without any ceremony. A few 

 exceptions have occurred when 

 money was plentiful. 



" 21. They do not teach their 

 children religion. 



" 22 and 23. Not one in a 

 thousand can read, 



" 24 and 2.5. Some go into 

 lodgings in London, Cambridge, 

 &c. during the winter ; but it is 

 calculated three-fourths of them 

 live out of doors in winter as in 

 summer." 



19. ']i^\\e Journal de Paris says, 

 that on the 19th there was a new 

 fall of stones, or aerolites as they 

 are called, in a garden at Ster- 

 nenburg, near Bonn, on the 

 Lower Rhine. One of them, it 

 is said, weighed lOOlb. ; others 

 from 20 to 40. Their fall, which 

 took place in a cherry-garden, 

 caused a horrible noise and deep 

 trenches in the earth. The gar- 

 dener, and seveial labourers who 

 were at work, both saw and heard 

 them fall; the proprietor, who 

 was in his house with a friend, 

 heard the noise of their fall. The 

 colour of these stones is stated to 

 be green, verging to black; their 

 Aveight like that of marble ; and 

 they resemble the residuum or 

 scoruE from tlie iron forge. 



Wologda, July 19 (0. S.) We 

 have received the sad news, thaton 

 the ."Sth instant, duringagreat thun- 

 der-storm, the cold and the \\ arm 



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