mation neither confirms nor militates against W. Y.'s conjecture of their being defcendants of Indian emigrants. "A confiderable number of Arabs dwell within the city of Aleppo and its fuburbs in fmall mean houfes. They feldom marry eut of their tribes, and retain the Arab drefs and manners. Thefe are called Bidoweens, as are the Arabs of the Defert, and other tribes, which in the fering encamp under the city walls; the latter in the fummer removing their tents to the reighPouring villages, and in the winter taking thelter in grottos or caverns in the vicinity of the town." Vol. I. p. 163. "The Arabs who encamp without the gates of Aleppo have been already mentioned. The Chinganas, qubo are a perfelly difline people (though they live in the fame manner), ufually encamp near them. Their language is Arabic, but mixed with a number of words and phrafes bardly underflood in Syria. They migrate in the fummer to the adjacent villages, and return early in the spring. Their dreis is like that of the Bidoweens; and their women colour their lips, and adorn themselves with rings in the fame fashion." Vol. I. p. 166. "The Bidoweers, who dwell in tents, wear a coarfe blue garment made in the form of a fhirt, with wide fleeves, open a little at the breaft, and reaching to the ancles. The black fafh they wear on the head ferves to conceal the face, one corner of it being brought across the mouth and the chin. Their legs are naked; but, though in the country they commonly walk bare-foot, yet it is unufoal to fee them in towns without boots." "A race of Bidoweens is mentioned by D'Arvieux, who live at Alexandria much in the fame manner as the Gipfies in France. They encamp between the feabeach and the walls of the city under tents, where men, women, children, and cattle, are all lodged promifcuoufly. The only apparel of the women is a large blue thift; the men and young boys cover themselves with a long piece of couracan; but the children go naked in all feafons." Notes, vol. I. which has been ascribed to the reverend and very learned W. Tooke, intituled, "Ruflia: or, a complete hiftorical Account of all the Nations which compofe that Empire," is alfo connected with the fubject of Gipfies. "The Ruffians made themselves masters of Ingria, or Inguermannlande, in the beginning of the prefent century, at which time the inhabitauts of the flat country were a Finnish people, but little different from the Finns of Carelia as to their lan guage and manners. These Ingrians were called Ifchorki, and Ifchortzi, from the little river Ifchera, which runs into the Neva. With their poverty and diforderly life, the Ingrians are a ftupid, fufpicious, thievifh race, and dangerons from their phlegmatic and pilfering temperament. Thofe who live along the road to Riga greatly refemble the people we call Gipfies; are vagabonds like them, and calculate nativities, and tell fortunes. Such as come to Petersburg for those fraudulent purposes would fcarcely be known from the Gipfies about London. It is but a few years ago, that a whole village of thefe wretches were banished to a defert ifland in the gulf of Finnland for murders and other crimes committed on the highway. The boys from feveral villages frequently elope at once; and there is every reafon in the world to believe that this is for very bad purpafes." From the paffages above quoted from Dr. Raffell's work it appears, that "A Southern Fernift" is not the firft perfon who has afferted the exilience of an analogy between the Gipfies and the wild Arabs. We fee it noticed by an accurate obferver, who compared the two races together as they lay encamped near each other, and before his eyes, under the walls of Aleppo; and we learn from him, that fonic part of the converfation of the Gipfies is unintelligible to the Arabs. It is therefore evident, that their peculiar language is neither a dialect of the Arabic or Sy "The Chingani, who are spread almoftriac; poffibly, therefore, it may be over all the world, are in great abundance Hindoftanny. All the circumitances in the North of Syria, and pafs for Maho- attending the Gipfies are fo extraordimetaus. They live under tents, and fome- nary, that they are rendered thereby an times in grots underground. They make interefting people, and it is to be withed a coarfe fort of carpet work for houfings of that they could, by reformation, be renfaddles and other ufes; and, when they are dered a ufeful one; yet they feem to be not far from town, deal much in milch given up by the civilized part of our cattle, and have a much better character community to their fuppofed incorrigi than their relations in Hungary, or the bility.. FORESTUS. Gipfies in England, who are thought by fome to have been originally of the fame tribe." Notes, vol. II. Mr. URBAN, Cambridge, Oa. 3. The following extract from a work THE workmen now employed in digging the foundations of the new new gaol of this county, about 74 feet below the furface of the earth, difcovered a Greek olla, or pot, together with fome fragments which appeared to be thofe of larger veffels. In the infide of the olla were a few coins, fome of which I find in Montfaucon's Catalogue of Antiques, and one in that of Grævius. The remaining two poffefs no characteristic marks, nor is there any reafon to fuppofe they were of an earlier date than the time of Hadrian, who began (I beg pardon of the Anti quaries for faying fo) and completed the Devil's ditch, in the neighbourhood of Newmarket, &c. This I will not now infift upon: pollibly I may favour the world with a paper on the fubject through the medium of your valuable Mifcellany. In the mean time, let your numerous readers examine the marks of the lately-difcovered olla, which appears not to be a culinary utenfil, but an urn or ornament of the Conaculum, fome of which are men tioned by Vitruvius. Query, May not this be imilar to the famous fix Urceoli which Codrus poflefled, as Juve, nal relates in his feventh Satire, on the ornamentum Abaci. The anfæ, or ra, are very remarkable; and the whole gives a complete idea of the deras aunómenov, depas amphicupellon, though Euftathius difagrees with Athenæus in the explanation of this term in Homer. The parts of the plate which are blacked are thofe which accidents have broken off. The whole of the plinth upon which the olla stands was deftroyed by the inattention of the work A. Z. will, therefore, excufe our omitting his tranfcript from Mr. Hafted, and fabitituting the following deferip tion from our fecond correfpondent. Mr. URBAN, Jan. 26, 1809. A coal of Kent, a Hythe, being SI was a few days fince on the much pleafed with the fingularity of the appearance of the church, I made the clofed fketch, and have fince drawn up the following particulars of the town and that facred ftructure. Hythe is fituated about 16 miles to the South of Canterbury, and was written in Domefday Hede, and by the Latins Portus Hithinus. It is one of the Cinque Ports, and as fuch fends two members to parliament, and enjoys all the privileges attendant on the ports in general. The town, which confifts of about 200 houfes, is pleafantly fituated clofe to the rife of a very confiderable hill to the Northward of it. The fea having retired to near the difiance of a mile has left a spacious level between it and the town, which is now converted into excellent paftu rage. The town is governed by a mayor, 12 jurats, and 24 commoncouncil men, being fo incorporated the 17th of Elizabeth; before which time if appointed by the archbishop of it was under the jurifdiction of a baiCanterbury. It appears that it was formerly far more confiderable than at pretent, having an abbey and four pa righ-churches; but it is probable that it never recovered from the calamity it fuffered in the reign of Edward II. when upwards of 200 houfes were deI could but ill trace out the infcrip-ed by a peftilence, and the lois of five ftroyed by fire; and this being follow men. tion on the body of the olla. The letters are extremely imperfect. It appears to be .... c. Icc. M* IA* PCE. (Plate II. fig. 1); which a learned friend of mine conjectures to be "Caius lecius militam 160 (præfectus) pofuit caritatis ergo." Yours, &c. W. C. J. to reduced the inhabitants, that the reof their fhips, and 100 men drowned, maining few had thoughts of abandoning the place, but were encouraged to fiftance of Henry IV. In the time of ftay through the interpofition and af Richard II. the French appeared off the town with confiderable force; but having landed 200 foldiers, they were attacked by the townimen, and, being all flaughtered, their fleet left the coaft. The church, which is dedicated to St. Leonard, fiands on the tide of the freep hill abovementioned; and, hefides a confiderable rife of ground, there is à noble flight of tone teps, given by William Glanville, efq. in 1729, up to the Southern entrance, which is by the the porch, over which is the townhall. The church confifts of a nave, enlightened by a clerefiory, with North and South' ailes, a North and South tranfept with a high chancel and a fmaller one on each fide. At the Weft end of the nave is a modern fione tower-fteeple crowned with turrets, and containing a peal of fix bells. This tower was erected, in 1751, in the place of a former one, which fell down in 1748. Though the nave and fide ailes are antiest, they are certainly of anuch later date than the chancels, to which there is a rife of feveral fieps from the body. The whole of the chancel is built on a crypt of excellent workmanship, the groining of which is admirable; and the entrance to it on the South fide is by one of the most beautiful Norman door-ways I ever faw, evidently, as are the chanceis, the remains of the abbey, which Leland fays flood on this fpot. The chancels, efpecially the middle one, are of the fame architecture as the crypt; and every thing is fo beautifully proportion ed according to the ftyle as to firike the attentive observer with no finall degree of furprize and delight. They are feparated by maffive pillars ftanding on fquare bales three feet high and five fquare, and inclustered with finall ones of Betheriden marble, from fome of which fpring the ribs of the light and beautiful groining. Encircling the up per part of the high chancel is a firing of finall double arches fupported by columns of Betheriden marble, and enriched after the fame manner as thofe which fo much ornament the fides of the cathedral at Canterbury. The lancet windows, in the true Norinan ftyle, are highly enriched withinfide, and, when they were filled with the glowing colours of rich "fioried glass," muft have greatly added to the fublimity of this admirable firucture. The monuments and infcriptions in the church are many (particularly for the refpectable family of the Deedes), but chiefly modern. I fhall, therefore, copy but one; which, as it relates to the hiftory of the town, is well worth being preferved. Ou a brals plate round the plain ftone, in capitals: verge of a "Here lieth ye body of JonN BREDGMAN, iurat of this town et port of Hythe, y latte hayly et fiist mayor of ye fame, who dep'ted y 3d of Decemb, auo 1581, in the 24 yere of ye r. of o' sovereig'e lade Queene Elizabeth.”. On the middle of the flone is, "Whilft he did live which heare doth lie,] Three futes gatt of yo Crowne, The mortmain, fayer, et mayralltie For Heythe, this antient towne, And was himself the bayle laste Et mayor firfte by name. Though he be gone tyme is not pafte To praise God for the fame." One curiofity remains, which it would be unpardonable not to particularize, namely, the amazing collection of human bones which are preferved in the Southern part of the crypt abovementioned. Tradition reports, that they are the remains of the Danes, who, infefting this coaft during the ninth cen tury, were defeated near Hythe, and the bodies of the flain being expofed to the fun and the fea, and their bones having thereby become hardened and bleached, were afterwards collected, and depofited here. This tradition, if not corroborated, is kept fresh in mind by the following extract, which is framed and hung up in the vault. "From an antient Hiftory of England, brought down to 1658. "A.D. 853. The Danes landed on the coast of Kent, near the town of Hyta (now Hythe). They ravaged and plundered of the city of Canterbury. They were, great part of the county, and burned part however, at length defeated by Guftavus, the governor of Kent, who affembled the greated part of the inhabitants, affifted by the army of Ethelwolf, then king of Britain, who met the invaders near Hyta, when the Danes fought with great courage, but, being overpowered, fled to their veffels, then on the coaft near the above town; but being closely purfued, they made a bold stand near the water, where the battle became general; and tradition reports that upwards of 30,000 fell in the conflict. fatigue, and perhaps fhocked with the After the battle, the Britons, wearied with flaughter, returned to their homes, leaving the fun on the field of battle; where be ing expofed to the different changes of the weather, after a length of time the flesh rotted from the bones, which were at length collected and piled in heaps by the inhabitants, who in time removed them imo a vault in one of the churches at Hyta." "D. Thomifon, A.D. 1793.” The infide of this crypt, with the bones piled up therein, was published, Feb. 28, 1789, from a drawing of the Rev. Thomas Ruffell, of Guildford, with an account engraved on the fides. The |