OF SELBORNE. 



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LETTER XXV. 



TO THE SAME. 



DEAR SIR; Selborne, Oct. 2, 1775. 



W E 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 Stan- 

 ley^ of which I have nothing particular to 

 say ; but the other is distinguished 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 diXidi 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 



