LETTER XXV. 



'To the same. 



SELBORNE, Oct. znd, 1775. 



EAR SIR, We have two gangs or hordes of 

 gypsies which infest the south and west of Eng- 

 land, 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 dis- 

 tinguished by an appellative 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 apparently Grecian, and as Mezeray and the gravest his- 

 torians all agree that these vagrants did certainly migrate from Egypt 



