book nierits a particular defcription. CafFa and the whole pe-
. . ninfula, which were before under the dominion o f the
Turk§, were, Jay an article in the late peace, declared independent
; and fubjeit to a kh-an,,ele6ted by the natives, but
confirmed both by the emprefs and grand-fignor : it is the
capital o f the Crimea, and the Tartars, who confider it as a
place o f great celebrity and importance* diftinguifh it by the
name o f Half Gonftantinople Pi The harbour, which is
very large, is capahle o f containing feveral hundred merchant
lhips ; and its inhabitants are the richeft and drive
the moft extenfive trade in the Black Sea. The productions
o f Crim Tartary, exported from CafFa and the other havens
o f that peninfula, confift chiefly in corn, wine* wool, fine black
and grey lamb-ikins, and fait. The imports are fine and
coarfe linens, printed cottons, nankeen, Ruffian leather, fine
cloths, velvets', taffeties, furs, ropes, paper, falted fiih, and
• caviare, tobacco leaves, copper and tin, hardware, gold and
filver threads, beads and corals, earthen wares, and a coarfe
fort of porcelain, glafs ware t, 8ec. See.
The port of Taman lies oppofite to Yenikale, at the extre-
i mity of the ftraits o f CafFa, upon a fmall ifland in the mouth
o f the river Kuban : it is fubjedt to the khan o f Crim Tartary,
and trafficks with the Circaffians from Mount Caucaufus,
die Coflacs dwelling near the rivers which fall into the
Kuban, and the Tartars inhabiting the defert between the
.Kuban and the Don : the exports are honey, wax, fait, wool,
* N ennen folch e di T a r ta r y .n u r j.arhn. o f the antient c ita d e l, of- ch urches, o f an*
Stambul, ' Kleemari’ s Re ife von W ien nach gels and' faints grofsl.y carved in ftone, and
' Qonftantinopel. See, a ca r iou s ac cou n t o f feveral L a t in , infcriptions,; p. 168'; & c . . H e
-Caffa, in th a t w o rk . T h e au fh pr obfcrved defcribes C r im T a r t a r y as a, v e ry fruitful,
th ere feveral »ruins o f the bu ild in g s -w h ich country.-
th e G en o efe conitru&ed when Ca ffa was in f G u ld cn ita ed t, p . 12— 14 .
¿-their ,poiTeffion, p a rt icu la r ly .the remains.
6 ' " Akins
fkins of foxes, martens, fheep, See. : the imports nearly fi- chap."
milar to thofe at CafFa. «— \— >■
The ports o f the Eaftern and Southern coafts o f the Black
Sea are fituated in the Turkifh provinces o f Mingrelia,
Georgia,. and Anatolia : the principal are Poti, where the
merchants o f Georgia refort; Trebizond; Cherfon, which is
diftant only 60 miles from Tokat, at which town the cara1
vans from Perfia affemble and feparate, in order to proceed
by different routes to Smyrna’and Conftantinople ; Sinope* -
the neareft port upon the Black Sea to Angora, the only place
hitherto known that fupplies the fine goats-hair, generally
called camels-hair, ■ from which the beft camlets are manu*
factured, and which equal, i f not furpafs, thofe o f Bruffels i •
this hair, fpun into yarn, is chiefly purchafed at Tocat by
the merchants o f the caravans in their way to Smyrna, from
which port Europe is moftly fupplied with this commodity . .
The Greek and Armenian merchants-draw from thefe.
parts honey,- wax, ikins o f foxes, of martens, and o f fheep,
raw and manufactured filk, both Perfian andTurkiih, cotton, .
callicoes, rice, faffron, dried fruit, &c. They fupply them
in return with Ruffian and other European productions..
Tios or Tilios, where the Turks have a dock for repairing
ffiips, and at which place fails, cordage, anchors, and other
naval ftores, afe advantagebully difpofed of.
The ports on the Weftern fhore o f the Black Sea* befide
Kinburn, are Varna in Bulgaria, which is diftant about 100
miles from- Adrianople; Kilia-Nova, at the mouth o f the
Danube in Wallac.hia ; and Akkermen, upon the mouth o f
the Dniefter, in Beffarabia, and about 60 miles from Bender!
Thefe ports furniih wool, dried fruits, Hungarian and Mol-
davian wines, buffalo fkinsj Sec. The traffiek to Varna and
Akkermen might be -confiderably increafed by forming a
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