GIPSEYS. 
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Tyre refused to accept of Solomon, may be some corroboration 
of the Afghan’s claim to Jewish origin. And in that case, as 
prophecy intimates that in the offending families of Israel “ a 
remnant of all shall be saved,” there are yet the possible posterity 
of the wretched band from Mount Ephraim and the hilly coun¬ 
try about Jerusalem, to be sought for; they who fled into Egypt 
in the time of Apries (or Pharaoh Hophra), and disappeared 
there, hardly two centuries after the vanishing of the ten tribes 
from the land of Assyria. Without looking farther than my 
present subject, it does not seem extravagant to suppose that 
these Kara Shee, or Gipseys, these dark people , so like the Jews 
in physiognomy, and resembling them in a fate of actual repu¬ 
diation from a country and a home,—both “ an astonishment, and 
a curse, and a reproach,” should originally have been of the same 
people. And in that instance, their appellation of Gipsey, ac¬ 
knowledged to have been derived from Egypt, seems to point 
them out as the verv descendants from the fugitive band we 
seek; who, (as related in the Second Book of Kings, and by 
Jeremiah,) after the entire conquest of the Holy Land by Ne¬ 
buchadnezzar, assembled at Mizpah; and thence, under the 
guidance of Jolianan, the son of Kareah, and in opposition to 
the express commands of God, fled into Egypt. They there 
became inhabitants of “ Migdol, Tephanhes, and Noph;” and 
polluting themselves with the idolatries of the country, soon 
after received the following judgment, denounced against them 
by the lips of the prophet: 
“ Because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abo¬ 
minations ye have committed, behold I have sworn by my great 
Name, saith the Lord, that my Name shall be no more named 
in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt. 
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