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hazel rods bent hoop fashion, and stuck 

 into the earth at each end, in circum- 

 stances too trying for a cow in the same 

 condition : yet within this garden there 

 was a large hop-kiln, into the chambers of 

 which she might have retired had she 

 thought shelter an object worthy her 

 attention. 



Europe itself, it seems, cannot set bounds 

 to the rovings of these vagabonds ; for Mr. 

 Bell, in his return from Peking, met a gang 

 of these people on the confines of Tartary, 

 who were endeavouring to penetrate those 

 deserts and try their fortune in China. ^ 



Gypsies are called in Fre7ich, Bohemians, 

 in Italian and modern Greeks Zingani. 



I am, &c. 



* See Bell's Travels in China. 



