Tliis  belief  they  principally  found  upon  particular
parts  of  the  prophecy  from  which  wo  have  already
quoted,  and  there  is  no  laek  of  plaustbitily  in  the
arguments  which  they  deduce  therefrom.  The
Egyptians,  say  they,  were  to  fall  upon  the  open
fields,  tliej-  were  not  to  be  brought  together  nor
gathered ;  they  were  to  be  dispersed  through  the
countries,  llieir  idols  were  to  be  destroyed,  and
their  images  were  to  cease  out  of  Nnph  !  In
what  people  in  the  world  do  Ihese  denunciations
appear  to  he  verified  save  the  Gypsies  ?— a  people
who  pass  their  lives  in  the  open  fields,  who  ant
not  gathered  together,  who  are  dispersed  through
the  countries,  who  have  no  idols,  no  images,  nor
any  fixed  or  certain  religion.
In  Spain,  the  want  of  religion  amongst  the
Gitdnos  was  speedily  observed,  and  became  quite
as  notorious  as  their  want  of  honesty;  they  have
been  styled  atheists,  heathen  idolaters  and  MoofS.
In  the  little  book  of  Quinones,  we  find  the  sub-
ject noticed  in  the  following  manner :

"They  do  not  understand  what  kind  of  thing
the  church  is,  and  never  enter  it  but  for  the  par-
pose  of  committing  sacrilege.  They  do  not  know
the  prayers;  for  I  examined  them  myself,  males
and  females,  and  they  knew  them  not,  or  if  any.
