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lakes fince the year 1797, when it was fixed at two hundredand eighty thoufand rubles per annum.

The third of the falt-Iakes near Perekop is the Adaman^ bythe Ruflians denominated Krugloi-Ofero, or the Round-Lake.It is only one verft and a half diftant from the Red Lake, andabout fix verfts in circumference. Its bottom is muddy: whenfalt is formed, the carriers are permitted to fupply themfelveswith it, but no part is ftored up for the magazines of theCrown.

The fourth is the falt-lake Itarkhan y alfo called Keeyatßöe-Ofero, from the narae of an adjacent village. It is of an oblongform, extends from Eaft to Weft, and has deep inlets on thefouthern fide. Its circumference is nearly twenty, and its dif-tance from the Adaman is three verfts. This and the fucceedinglakes are the moft remote from the Sivafh; but the formerprefents long creeks on the fide next the Putrid Sea, whichrender it probable that a communication formerly exiftedbetween them. The bed of this lake is tolerably firm ; thoughit is reforted to, only when large quantities of falt are requiredat one time, in Order to prevent too great a concourfe of peopleand of draught-cattle at the Itarkhan.

The fifth faline-lake is the Kerleyt, fituated near the Kee-yatfköe-Ofero, in a more fouthern diredion. It is of anoblong figure; about two verfts in circumference, and depofitsfalt in a larger quantity, and of a better quality, than thatproduced by the Red Lake; but its bottom is muddy.

To the Eaft of the Kerleyt, and almoft parallel with it, liesthe great falt-lake Kirk t the circumference of which amountsto thirty-two verfts. It is likewife oblong, from North to

South,