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the metfhet Yani-Dfham; and at Karaffubafar are five, wherewhite leather, termed Me/hini, is alfo prepared. There are,befides, in the laft mentioned town, four others for red leather,as well as a few in Koflof. But the beft manufadory is thateftablifhed fome years fince, at a confiderable expence, andupon the fame plan as thofe of other countries, by AdmiralMordvinof in his village of Eggis-Obo, on the banks of theKatfha, where fole and upper leathers are manufadured.

The red and yellow Moroccos of the Crimea are in norefped inferior to thofe of Turkey, and feveral thoufand fkinsare annually ufed, partly in the country for horfe equipage,as well as for clothing the feet and legs, and partly forexportation to Ruflia. The beft leathers of this kind areprepared only from buck-ikins, which are purchafed at therate of a ruble and a half each. The inferior forts, efpeciallythe yellow, are manufadured from thofe of fheep, which ina raw ftate are fold at the rate of feventy kopeeks a fkin.—According to the moft accurate information which I have beenable to procure, the hides are firft put into lime for ten days,and the hair is feparated ; when they are immerfed in lime-water for fourteen days. After undergoing this Operation,they muft lie nearly the fame fpace of time in a ley, withthe addition of the white excrements of dogs. Next, they arewalhed very clean, and covered with pounded falt, with whichthey remain in water for five days, and are then anointed withhoney-water on the hairy fide, to which the colour is to beimparted. In this pickle they may be kept from ten days tofix months, according to the manufadurer's convenience, beforethey are dyed. The cochineal ufed for the purpofe of tinging

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