“12. They are too ignorant to have acquired accounts of genealogy, and perhaps indisposed by the irregularity of their habits.
“13. In most counties there are particular situations to which they are partial. There is a marsh, near Newbury in Berkshire, much frequented by them; and Dr. Clark states, that in Cambridgeshire, their principal rendezvous is near the western villages.
“14. It cannot be ascertained whether this attachment to particular places has prevailed from their first coming into the nation.
“15, 16, and 17. When among strangers, they elude inquiries respecting their peculiar language, calling it Gibberish. They know of no person that can write it, or of any written specimen of it.
“18. Their habits and customs in all places are peculiar.
“19. Those who profess any religion, represent it to be that of the country in which they reside: but their description of it seldom goes beyond repeating the Lord’s Prayer; and only a few of them are capable of that. Instances of their attending any place for worship are very rare.
“20. They marry for the most part by pledging to each other, without any ceremony. A few exceptions have occurred, when money was plentiful.
“21. They do not teach their children religion.
“22, and 23. Not one in a thousand can read.”