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Kofla, there are in the low fhore feveral fmall lakes and ponds,containing falt, and which are feparated from the fea by thealluvial fand. The moft confiderable, on the ifthmus conti-guous to Petroffkaya-Krepoft, are the following:

Skalkovatöe, fix verfts from Petroffk, and four verfts in cir-cumference.

Sudovoi, lying at a very fhort diftance from the preceding andfrom the fea: it is two verfts in circumference.

Grußoi, two verfts from the former, and nearly of the famefize.

Krafnöe, very near the laft-mentioned lake, and about threcverfts in circumference.

Obitoßmöe, near the fecond or weftern Berdänfkaya-Kofla,fifty-eight verfts from Petroffkaya-Krepoft, and not exceedingone verft in circumference. All thefe lakes receive large quan-tities of fnow-water in the fummer, on which account falt israrely formed; and, though of an inferior quality, it is ftillemployed in fome of the fifheries.

Several produktive falt-lakes, of the fame nature as the pre-ceding, occur on the.ifthmus of Kinburn. Some of them arein a detached fituation, at the commencement of this neck ofland, on both fhores; among which is a fetid lake, clofelybordering on the coaft of the Black Sea: others appear in twoplaces, on the Leeman, at a fhort diftance from Fort Kinburn,and on the fhore of the Euxine, at the point which terminatesin an eafterly diredtion. Thefe difterent lakes, the falt ofwhich was fold with great profit to the Poles, were formerlylet to Count, now Prince Besborodko, for the annual rent

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