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c hap. market of the Peninsula 1 . The principal shops 
s — „ — j are employed in the sale of leather, particularly 
of the Morocco kind ; this they prepare them- 
selves ; also in pottery, hard-ware, soap, 
candles, fruit, and vegetables. The number of 
inhabitants amounts to about 3700, male and 
female : this number includes a very mixed 
population of Tahtars , Russians, Greeks, Jews, 
Italians, and Armenians. 
Akmeuhet. From Karasubazar we journeyed to Akmet- 
chet*, the residence of the Governor-general of 
the Crimea. The Russians, since the Peninsula 
came into their hands, have endeavoured to 
give to this place the name of Sympheropol ; but 
we never heard it called by any other appel- 
lation, in the country, than that which it received 
from the Tahtars. The town was once beautiful, 
owing to the numerous trees that filled the 
valley where the Salgir flows ; but the Russians 
have laid all waste. Scarcely a bush now 
remains. Ahmetchct will however long be 
celebrated as the residence of Professor Pallas, 
so well known to the literary world for his 
Travels, and already so often mentioned in this 
work. His fame would have been sufficiently 
(l) Pallas’s Travels, vol. II. p. 251. 
(21 A Tahtar word, signifying “ The IVhitc Church." 
