LETTER XXV. 



To the same. 



SELBORNE, Oct. 2nd, 1775. 



EAR SIR, We have two gangs or hordes of 

 gypsies which infest the south and west of 

 England, and come round in their circuit 

 two or three times in the year. One of these 

 tribes calls itself by the noble name of Stanley, 

 of which I have nothing particular to say; 

 but the other is distinguished by an appella- 

 tive somewhat remarkable. As far as their harsh gibberish 

 can be understood, they seem to say that the name of their 

 clan is Curleople; now the termination of this word is ap- 

 parently Grecian, and as Mezeray and the gravest historians 

 all agree that these vagrants did certainly migrate from Egypt 



