But it is not so well known that many other tribes noticed in the Old Testament are to be found in this Island of Great Britain.
There are the Hittites, who excel in one branch of gymnastics. And there are the Amorites, who are to be found in town and country; and there are the Gadites who frequent watering places, and take picturesque tours.
Among the Gadites I shall have some of my best readers, who being in good humour with themselves and with every thing else, except on a rainy day, will even then be in good humour with me. There will be Amorites in their company; and among the Amorites too there will be some, who in the overflowing of their love, will have some liking to spare for the Doctor and his faithful memorialist.
The Poets, those especially who deal in erotics, lyrics, sentimentals or sonnets, are the Ah-oh-ites.
The gentlemen who speculate in chapels are the Puh-ites.
The chief seat of the Simeonites is at Cambridge; but they are spread over the land. So are the Man-ass-ites of whom the finest specimens are to be seen in St. James's Street, at the fashionable time of day for exhibiting the dress and the person upon the pavement.
The free-masons are of the family of the Jachinites.
The female Haggites are to be seen, in low life wheeling barrows, and in high life seated at card tables.
The Shuhamites are the cordwainers.
The Teamanites attend the sales of the East India Company.