UNCLE TN ENGLAND. GO 



[oses in the bush ; the middle one, which is the 

 lighestj is that on which God gave the law to 

 Moses, and is still called Gebel Mousa, or the 

 Mount of Moses ; and the third and most 

 easterly is called St. Catherine's Mount, from 

 the monastery which has been erected there. 



2d. The poor wandering gipsy died in a very 

 few days ; and my aunt immediately put her son 

 under the care of the Franklins and the old blind 

 man. Charley is an intelligent little fellow, but 

 will require great care and attention ; he speaks 

 a sort of incomprehensible gibberish, and under- 

 stands but little of what is said to him. The 

 housekeeper asserts that nothing can civilize 

 those gipsies, however early they are taken in 

 hand ; but my aunt will try what mildness and 

 steadiness can effect : she has desired him to be 

 treated very gently, and his faults rather over- 

 looked, till he can be made to understand the 

 value of a good character. My uncle has written 

 about him to some of his mother's relations ; 

 but unless they are capable of taking care of him 

 he will not abandon the child. Mary and Caro- 

 line have bought some clothes for him, and as 

 just now I have no pocket money, not having 

 managed my last quarter well, I begged to be 

 allowed to contribute time and work. 



What an extraordinary thing it is, that these 

 odd people, the Gipsies, should have been wan- 



