The coarfe fort is manufactured in Ruffia ; the finer
fort is foreign, chiefly Englifh, Pruffian, and French.
An arfhire of foreign cloth fetches, according
to its finenefs, from a to 4 roubles.
Camlets.
Calimancoes.
Druggets.
White flannels, both Ruffian -and foreign.
The remaining articles are,
Rich fluffs.
Velvets. 1 . -•
Coarfe linen, chiefly manufactured in Ruffia.
Ruffia leather.
Tanned hides.
Glafs ware and looking glafles.
Hardware, namely, knives, fciffars, locks, 8cc.
Tin.
Ruffian talk.
Cattle, chiefly camels, horfes, and horned cattle.
The Chinefe alfo pay very dear for hounds, greyhounds,
barbets, and dogs for hunting wild boars.
Proviflons * .
* In the year 1772, the Chinefe purchafed meat, at Kiachta, at the
following prices :
A pound o f beef 34 copecs.
lamb. 24
Horfe flelh.for the Tartars 4 «. Pallas Reife, P . III. p .
Meal.
R U S'S I A A N D C HI N A . 23?
Meal.— The Chinefe no longer import fuch large
quantities of meal as formerly, fince they have employed
the Mongols to cultivate the lands lying near
the river Orchon #, 8cc. &c.
Lift o f the moft valuable commodities procured^
from China.
RAW AND MANUFACTURED STLK. iropom.
The exportation of'raw filk is prohibited in China
under pain, of death: large quantities however are
fmuggled every year into Kiachta, but not fufficient to
anfwer the demands of the Ruffian merchants.
A pood of the beft fort is eftimated at 150 roubles
of the worft fort at 75
The manufactured filks are of various forts, faffiions,
and prices, viz. fattins, taffaties,. damaflcs,. and gauzes,,
fcanes of filk died of all colours, ribbands, &c. 8cc.
RAW AND. MANUFACTURED CO T TO N .
Raw. cotton is imported in. very large quantities ;
a great part of this commodity is employed in packing
up the china ware, and by thefe means'is conveyed into
f S. R . G. III. p. 495— 371. Pallas Reife, P. III. p. 136— 144.
the