YETHOLM, a parish on the confines of England, in the county of Roxburgh, containing two villages of the same name. One of these, Town Yetholm, is the place where the largest colony of Gipsys in Scotland is to be found. The strolling habits and vagabond life which they lead are too well known to require any description here; but it may be stated, that in consequence of the operation of the new police act for Scotland and England, there is every probability of a change taking place in their erratic mode of life, by their being compelled to settle to steady occupations in a fixed place of abode, or otherwise being liable to be imprisoned as vagrants. Their number is at present about 100. The village is situate in a valley about one mile in length and
quarter of a mile in breadth, through which the Powmont Bows. The parish church is situated in Kirk Yetholm, while in Town Yetholm there are two dissenting places of worship. The population of the parish in 1831 was 1289.
Yezd, a city of Persia, in the province of Khorassan, on the frontier of Seistan. It is situated in a sandy desert, contiguous to a range of lofty mountains. Being a great commercial emporium between Hindustan, Bokhara, and Persia, it is a place of considerable trade, is large and flourishing, and its bazaar is supposed to contain 20,000 houses, besides those of the Guebres or worshippers of fire, which are estimated at 4000. These Guebres are a persecuted remnant, who after the extinction of the greater part of their race, are all suffered to exist in a state of oppression, being subjected to a poll-tax of twenty piastres, besides the various exactions of the Persian government. There were formerly many opulent Hindus in this place; but, in order to escape the exactions of the governor, who intended to plunder them, they all fled in one night to Candahar, where they have established themselves, and since that period there have not been more than nine Hindus in Yezd. The city exports corn from Ispahan. Cattle are scarce, and sell high. The town is famous for the manufacture of silk stuffs which are superior to any in Persia. The fort has but mean appearance, and the town is destitute of a wall. It is about 300 miles east of Ispahan. Long. 55. 30. E. Lat. 32. 30. N.