MOSCOW. 
dancer expressed his savage joy in squeaks, 
contortions, and sudden convulsive spasms 
that seemed to agitate his whole frame ; stand- 
ing sometimes still, then howling, whining 
tenderly, or trembling in all his limbs to the 
music, which was very animating. This dance, 
although extremely common in Russia, they con- 
fess to have derived from the gipsies ; and it may 
therefore seem probable that our hornpipe was 
introduced by the same people. Other gipsies 
were telling fortunes, according to their uni- 
versal practice, or begging for presents of 
oranges and ice. This extraordinary people, 
found in all parts of Europe, was originally 
one of the casts of India, driven out of their 
own territory: they are distinguished among 
Indian tribes by a name which signifies Thieves'. 
They have a similar appellation among the 
Finlanders. They preserve every-where the 
same features, manners, and customs, and, 
what is more remarkable, almost always the 
same mode of dress. The extraordinary re- 
semblance of the female gipsies to the women 
of India was remarked by our officers and men 
in Egypt, when General Baird arrived with his 
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(l) See the Commentary of Professor P or than, of Abo in Finland , 
upon the Chronicle of that University. His works are not sufficiently 
known. He has written the History and Origin of the Finland 
Tribes ; and a very erudite Dissertation concerning the Gipsies. 
