2ia T R A N^ S A C T I O N S B E T W E E N, &c. 



emprefs (who, amidft many excellent regulations which 

 charaderife her reign, has flievvn herfelf invariably at- 

 tentive to the improvement of the Ruffian commerce) 

 MonoFoiy of aboUQied, in 1762, the monopolv of the fur trade, and 



the Far Traiie 



aLuiiiiic^u jenounced in favour of her fubje(3:s the exclulive pri- 

 vilege which the crown enjoyed of fending caravans to 

 Pekin -. By thefe conceffions the profits of the trade 

 have been, confiderably encreafed : the great expencc, 

 hazard, and delay, of tranfporting the m.erchandife occa- 

 fionally from the frontiers of Siberia to Pekin, has beea 

 retrenched ; and Kiachta is now rendered the center 

 of the Ruffian and Chinefe commerce. 



■^ S. R. G. VIII. p. 520. 



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