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GENERAL REMARKS ON THE PENINSULA

a creek at the fouthern extremity running in a North-eaftemdirection; being twenty-feven verfts in circumference, at thediftance of fifty verfts from Kertih, and fomewhat fartherfrom Kaffa. Its fouthern point appears formerly to have com-municated with the Black Sea (clofely bordering upon it) bymeans of a fmall opening between eminences, but which isnow clofed by a narrow ifthmus. It depofits every yearabundance of falt, that is exported to Anatolia.

At the diftance of little more than two verfts from the pre-ceding, and nearer to Mount Opuk, there is a fmaller falt-lake, feparated from the Euxine by a low neck of land, onwhich ftands the village of Tufla-Koyak. Like the Elken,it is enclofed by heights, and by the eaftern contiguous mountabove named; forms feveral creeks towards the fea; and iscalled Ufunßoi-ofero ; being computed to be about ten verfts incircumference.

The falt-lake Katßiik, borders on a promontory of the famename, by which the bay of Kaffa is bounded on the Eaft:this lake is broadeft towards the Black Sea, from which it isfeparated only by a low and narrow fand-bank. On accountof the influx of frefh water, it feldom depofits any falt.

On the ftrand of the bay near Kaffa, lies another falt-lake,termed Koiti, which is divided from it only by a narrow flipof land. The falt formed in it, was firft difcovered in theyear 1793, though it was diflblved by fubfequent rains.

Of the fame nature with the falt-lakes of Crim-Tartary, arethofe fituated between the Berda and Molofhnye Vody, as alfoon the banks of the Dniepr. For, on the borders of the Seaof Azof, along the two promontories denominated Berdänfkaya-

Koffa,