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GENERAL REMARKS ON THE PENINSULA

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The Carduus cyaniodes polyclonos grew here in a very peculiarmanner, with lanceolated leaves, having fcarcely any divifions;and forming red wings along the ftalk. The Arundo arenaria^Onoftna ecbioides, and other plants that delight in a fandyfoil, were alfo frequent. This traft continues along theDniepr, as far as the intrenchment of Shurieffkoi, and to theifthmus lying in front of Kinburn.

Olefhki, the name of which is perhaps derived from theancient Heleniopolis, is a large village, confifting of twohundred and feventy-five houfes, fituated on an elevatedfteppe, contiguous to the marfhy ground forming the lowbanks of the Dniepr. Under the jurifdicYion of the fame fuper-intendant, fix other villages have lately been eftablifhed in itsvicinity; namely, Bolihye Kopani, comprizing ten ; Karda-Ihina, twenty-five; Kaftagrifova, fix; Tfharburdi, ten; Raden-fkaya, and Malye Kopani, each containing fix houfes. Thenumber of males in all thefe villages amounts to nine hundredand fixty-four; and we found new fettlers, füll employed ineretting villages on the road from Perekop to Beriflavl; andwhich will receive the names of Tfhapli and Tfhernaya Dolina.

In the environs of Olefhki, the Syetfh of the Kozaks of Sa-porogi was formerly fituated, about twenty-eight verfts from thebeginning of the Leeman of the Dniepr, and thirty from thefirft of the Kinburn falt-lakes.

The pafläge from this place, over the Dniepr, to the townof Kherfon, is performed in ferry-boats. From the neareftarm of the river, termed Tfhaika, we pafled into the Konfkaya;thence into the Gnilufha; and, laftly, over the Dniepr itfelf,which is fomewhat lefs than one verft in breadth. The whole

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