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peculiar conftrudtion, adapted to the purpofe. From the hair ofthis quadruped, the Tartar women of the plains manufatture anarrow cloth, which is ufed in its natural colour, and is ex-tremely warm, foft, and light: if it were made broader, itwould afford a more lucrative article of commerce. Themanufadtory at Novoroffeeifk, or Ekaterinoflavl, formerly pro-duced, from the fame material, a broad cloth, which was muchefteemed. The mild winter of the Crimea is very favourableto the habits and propagation of cameis ; and thefe quadrupedsare more numerous than is commonly fuppofed. In the year1796, a thoufand cameis were bought up in Crim-Tartary forthe ufe of the army in Perfia; and they were procured inthe courfe of a few weeks, without any remarkable diminutionof their number. The price of a full-grown camel is generallyfrom one hundred to one hundred and fifty rubles. In armies,they might be of great Utility as beafts of bürden, and alfobe ferviceable in putting to night any cavalry, the horfes ofwhich are unaccuftomed to the fight of thefe curious animals.

The breeding of horfes is carried on to a confiderable extentin the plains; many of the Murfes having Iarge eftablilhments,and paying great attention to blood. In general, however,there is a deficiency of good male horfes for breeding; norare they properly managed. In the year 1798, twenty fineftallions were fent from the Imperial ftables into the Crimea;and they would have been eminently ufeful in improving thebreed, had they been fuiFered to remain in the country for alonger time.—The horfes of the Tartars, inhabiting the moun-tains, are fmall, uncommonly hardy, and fure-footed; as theyare accuftomed from an early age to run upon rocks and dan-

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