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villages: we took notice of a much greater number now in adefolated ftate, and overgrown with luxuriant nettles, wildhemp, burdock, the Onopordum, Echinops y Rubus ceeßus^ worm-wood, and mugwort, The hemp of thefe regions, like that ofBoulogne and China, uniformly produced variegated feeds, andfrequently grew to the height of ten feet, covered with a very firmbark, of which the Circaffian women make thread and ftrings.

On arriving at the camp, we were received in the moft friendlyand polite manner by Major General Savelief, and pafled twovery pleafant days there, though the coldnefs of the nights al-ready began to be fenfibly feit. On the 2ift of September wereturned to Georgiefsk, as the advanced feafon rendered itneceflary for us to accelerate our journey to Taurida.

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