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figure of a flying Pegasus with the wings curved CHAP. 
towards the head, and beneath the animal the v . v .' > 
Phoenician letter << Koph. Some, upontheir ob- 
verse sides, exhibited only the indented square, 
divided into four parts, with a grain in each. 
We had not seen any Gipsies since we left Gipsies. 
Russia; but we found this people in Nauplia, 
under the name they bear in Moldavia, of 
Tchinganehs. How they came hither, no one 
knew ; but the march of their ancestors from 
the north of India to Europe, so lately as the 
beginning of the fifteenth century, will account 
for their not being found farther towards the 
south ; and this is now so well ascertained, that 
no one would expect to meet a Gipsy upon any 
of the southern shores of the Mediterranean. To 
have found them in the Peloponnesus is rather 
remarkable, considering that their whole tribe, 
at the first, did not exceed half a million ; and 
this number has subsequently much diminished. 
Their progress towards this peninsula may have 
been through Bulgaria, Thrace, and the other 
northern parts of Greece, from Moldavia, Transyl- 
vania, and Wallachia, where they are numerous, 
and find employment in collecting gold from the 
alluvial deposit of the rivers. Through the same 
countries they may have reached Asia Minor ; 
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