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GENERAL REMARKS ON THE PENINSULA

which has a very deep citron colour. The Tartars denominatethis fpecies of mulberry Stambul Dujhi, and prepare from it aftrong vinegar.

Walnut-trees, or Dfljiväs, are frequent in all the orchardsof the fbuthern vallies, occafionally of an enormous fize; andtheir fruit is conveyed in large quantities to Ruflia. Walnutsare among the moft profitable products of the country, as theyare fold at the rate of eight kopeeks, and often as high as aruble per thoufand. In favourable years, rnany trees bear fromten to fifty or fixty, nay, even one hundred thoufand nuts.The large thin-fhelled fpecies occurs but rarely. The woodis employed in the Crimea principally for cabinet-work.

There are three forts of hazel-nuts, ör Funduk, in Crim-Tartary; namely, the common fort is frequent in orchardsand woods, the timber of which is ufed for hooping cafks,and for poles ferviüg to fupport the felt-huts of the Nagays;the oblong Lambert-nut, or Baden-Funduk, which forms muchlarger bufhes ; and laftly, the Corylus Colurna y or Trebifond-Funduk, with fhort, obtufe nuts of an uncommon fize, theextenfive bufhes of which are likewife raifed exclufively inorchards.

Only two chefnut-trees, or Kaßan^ grow in the Crimea,as I have already obferved. Thefe folitary trees ftand in thegardens near the village of Derekoi, and almoft every yearproduce fruit of a diminutive fize: it would, however, be eafyto propagate the chefnut in the vallies bordering on themountains.

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