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GENERAL REMARKS ON THE PENINSULA

which is floated down the Dniepr, from its Upper banks inWhite Ruffia. The traffic, carried on with this article, as wellas with com, conftitutes the moft important branch of thetrade of this place. As we arrived here in the night, andproceeded on our journey early the next morning, I cannotenter into any detail with refped to the flourifhing ftate ofKrementfhuk.

The road now leads through extenfive, fandy, low groundson the banks of the Dniepr, which are interfperfed withwillows and various other trees; and where the river appearsto have completely interfecled the ftratum of granite. Imme-diately behind Potok (eighteen verfls), we ferried over thePfoll, which falls into the Dniepr, at the diftance of tenverfts from this place. Beyond it, the low country is im-pregnated with falt, and produces abundance of Chenopodiummaritimum, Camphorofma annua, Arenaria maritima, Salicornidffherbacea, and Orache. We then pafled over uniformly fertileplains, through Gorbanovy-Khutery (eighteen verfts) to Tfhet-fhina (fixteen verfts); where we crofled the Vorfkla. Next,we proceeded to Kobylaek (fixteen verfts), a neat town ofLittle Ruflia, confifting of one thoufand four hundred houfes,and having ten churches: a fchool has here been lately eftablifhed,and the place contains many elegant dwellings. It is fituatedin a charming piain, on the banks of the Vorfkla, and isadorned with gardens. On the road thither, I was delightedwith the excellent level meadows, enclofed by ditches, andembellifhed with fine plantations of willows; which belongto Major Gansha, a retired officer refiding in Kobylaek,

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