33 8 JOURNEY FROM ASTRAKHAN, &c.

at fo late a feafon of the year. Here, though I had only anopportunity to caft a flight glance on the border of the Cau-cafus, I perceived that much important Information might beacquired on fubjefts of topography, mmeralogy, and botany,notwithftanding the perfevering refearches of fo acute an ob-ferver as the late ProfefTor Gueldenstaedt.

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