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GENERAL REMARKS ON THE PENINSULA

nets was alfo carried on in the Bay of Kaffa, with tolerablefuccefs; but the method, ufually pra&ifed on the coafts by theGreeks and Tartars, confifts in employing the round cafting-net, termed by the French on the coaft of the MediterraneanEpervier, by the Tartars Satfma, and by the Greeks Pefovolo ;with which, however, few fifh are taken. The moft commonfort, occurring here, is the mullet, or Mugil Cepbalus, whichfwims in large fhoals along the whole fhore of the Black Sea,as far as the Canal of Gonftantinople; and from the roe ofwhich Botargo is prepared. Fifh of different ages advancein diftin£t fhoals; a fad, which has alfo been obferved in theBofphorus, and in fome parts of the Sea of Azof. Strabo hasgiven a very accurate defcription of this fifh, under the naraeof Pelamys ; of its origin in the Black Sea; its paffage throughthe Thracian Bofphorus; and the large draughts of it, that aretaken in the Bay of Conftantinople. The fea-fowl, and the ftnalldolphins of the Euxine, generally follow its courfe, and mightrender a fifhery, here eftablifhed upon an extenfive fcale, ftillmore produktive. Similar fhoals of large, and fat, delicateherrings appear in the winter; of which many thoufands arecaught at one time in the draw-nets. They are alfo taken atthe ftrait of Tonkoi, which connects the Sivafh with the Seaof Azof. A fort of anchovies (properly called Atherina), bythe Ruffians termed Byela Rybka, or white fifh, and by theTartars Cbarnßi, arrives during the vernal months, efpecially inMarch, in fuch quantities, that, after the equinoctial ftorms,the fea-fhore is fometimes in a manner furrounded with a ram-part of thofe fifh. A fuccefsful attempt has been made to eurethem, like Sardinias. In fome feafons, they are carried by

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