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 in general; which being taught them in their infancy, grows up with them, prevents oppressions frauds, and overreaching one another, which is common among other people, and tends to the very worst of evils. This happiness and temper of mind so wrought on Carew, as to occasion the strongest attachment to them for forty years, refusing very large offers that had been made him to quit their society.

Being thus initiated into the ancient society of gypsies, who take their name from Egypt, a place well known to abound in learning, and whose inhabitants travelled about from place to place to communicate knowledge to mankind. --Carew did not continue long in it before he was consulted in important matters, particularly Madam Musgrove, of Monkton, near Taunton. hearing of his fame sent for him to consult him in an affair of difficulty. When he was come, she informed him, that she suspected a large quantity of money was buried somewhere about her house, if he would acquaint her with the particular place she would handsomely reward him. Carew consulted the secret of his art on this occasion, and after