Old Hampshire Mapped
Cobbett's Hampshire
Transcription (14)Cheriton
gypsy
At Cheriton I found a grand camp of Gipsys just upon the move towards Alresford. I had met some of the scouts first, and afterwards the advance guard, and here the main body was getting in motion. One of the scouts that I met was a young woman, who, I am sure, was six feet high. There were two or three more in the camp of about the same height; and some most strapping fellows of men. It is curious that this race should have preserved their dark skin and coal-black straight and coarse hair, very much like that of the American Indians. ...
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