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GENERAL REMARKS ON THE PENINSULA

There is an abundance of vegetables in the Crimea, affordingexcellent food for cattle, and confifting not only of a greatvariety of graues, bur alfo of the beft vegetables recom-mended for artificial meadows; for inftance, the white andyellow melilot; the white mountain and baftard trefoil; hop-clover; the large red trefoil; feveral kinds of medic, fuch asthe Swedifh and common lucerne; the Efparfette of the French jvarious fine fpecies of vetches ; the Lotus and Coronilla; thecommon goats'-rue, or Galega ; the common burnet faxifrage,or Pimpinella Saxifraga; the Poterium Sanguiforba, or uplandburnet, &c. The mountains, as well as the champaign coun-try, prefent good pafture for fheep; and, in ordinary winters,the flocks are fufFered to remain in the fields. Cameis findlieh food in the Centaurea ovina Kali, and other prickly plants ;nor is there any fearcity of feeds for feeding poultry.

Of plants ufeful for dyeing, Crim-Tartary produces, in awild ftate, madder ; fome fine fpecies of mountain goofe-grafs;woad; dyers' green-weed in great abundance ; and, on thefouthern coaft, even the litmus, or Croton tinäorium: the faf-flower fueeeeds uncommonly well in gardens. The genuineoriental fafFron might alfo be eultivated with advantage: ofthe four indigenous fpecies of crocus, two of which producetheir beautiful blouoms in the fpring, and two in the autumn;but none yields the real fafFron. The feeds of the great peoniesare furrounded with a red pulp, the juice of which affords afine and durable purple dye.

For tanning, the Tartars poflefs valuable plants in the Su-mach and Cotinus. They might, however, alfo make ufe of thetamarifks; the dwarf grey-oak; the fmall horn-beam tree,

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