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OF THE CRIME A.

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The exports from Crim-Tartary to Ruffia confift of falt,which is the exclufive property of the Crown; of grey andblack lamb-fkins; fheep's and bullock's hides; fheep's wool;camel's hair; Ruffia leather; yellow tanned leather; hare-fkins; wine produced on the banks of the Katfha and Alma,as well as in Sudagh, Koos, and other adjacent vallies ; wal-nuts, partly of the growth of the peninfula, and partly im-ported from Anatolia, of which upwards of one million areannually fent to Ruffia, at the rate of from eighty to onehundred kopeeks the thoufand; hazel-nuts; apples of Sinap;frefh lemons and large oranges; together with dried fruitsimported from other parts j fturgeon's backs, or Balyki; Nar-denk, or a marmalade of grapes ; felts; hazel-poles, with whichthe Nagay-Tartars conftruct their huts; and roots of theCrambe orientalis, or wild horfe-radifh.

RETURN FROM THE CRIMEA TO ST. PETERSBURGH.

On the 18th of July 1794, I at length fet out on my returnto St. Peterfburgh, direöing my route towards Koflof; inorder to vifit this ancient, buftling, commercial town, whichflill poflefles a confiderable population.

We followed the road leading from Akmetfhet to Perekop,tili we croffed the Salgir a fecond time, after which we turnedto the North-weft, and entered a perfe&ly level country j where,however, the entirely horizontal calcareous ftratum, aboundingwith oolites and teftaceous fragments, in many places appears

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