somewhat remarkable — as far as their harsh gibber- 

 ish can be understood, they seem to say that the 



Gypsies in front of " The IVakesT 



name of their clan is Curleople. Now the termina- 

 tion of this wQrd is apparently Grecian : and as Me- 

 zeray and the gravest historians all agree that these 

 vagrants did certainly migrate from Egypt and the 

 East, two or three centuries ago, and so spread by 

 degrees over Europe, may not this family name, a 

 little corrupted, be the very name they brought 

 with them from the Levant? It would be matter 

 of some curiosity, could one meet with an intelligent 



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