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General Remarks on the Peninfula of the Crimea.

I.

ON THE INHABITANTS.

X he population of the Crimea formerly amounted to at leafthalf a million. Its firft diminution took place in 1778 ; when,in confequence of the peace concluded with the Turks, abovethirty thoufand Chriftians, as well Greeks as Armenians, being atthat time fettled in Crim-Tartary, (comprehending many tradef-people, ufeful artifans, and manufa&urers,) were removed tothe country between the Don and the Berda, beyond the Sea

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