SOUTH COAST OF THE CRIMEA. 2 oil 
where the affinity is less striking. The most ciiap. 
remarkable instance is, that lari, signifying a ■ *> 
* cask,’ or ‘ barrel,’ in Genoa, is pronounced by 
the Tahtars, baril ; bringing it very near to our 
English name for the same thing. The Tahtars, 
moreover, call a barber, herber ; and this they 
may have derived from the Genoese word 
larbe J . 
The unusual swarm of locusts which have 
infested the Crimea , of late years, has been 
already noticed. They have destroyed all the 
vineyards of the new settlers; but the Tahtars 
who cultivate the vine only for the pleasure of 
eating its fruit, disregard their coming, although 
it proves so mournful a scourge to the natives 
of other countries having establishments upon 
the coast. Soon after leaving Deryheibj, we it. iim of 
it Ct rspfc 
arrived at the rums of an old monastery, Monastery. 
(2) The fact is, that both the English language ami the lan- 
guage introduced by Genoese Colonies into the Crimea were derived 
from the same source, the old German. It came into .England 
A. D. 440. It was carried into Italy by the Heruli , ilest Got I I .. , 
Vandals, and Lombards, whence it found its way even to the 
Crimea, by means of Genoese colonists. (See CamMen's Remains. 
Land. 1 657.) Busbequius examined a Tahtar who arrived in Constan- 
tinople from the Crimea, and he discovered that the inhabitants of 
that country had many words in their language which were common 
to the Flemings i as broe, bread; hus, a house; header , brother; 
silvir, silver ; salt, salt ; sane, the sun ; ape!, an apple ; kommen, to 
come ; singhen, to sing, &c. They also numbered in the following 
manner : Ita, tua, tria, fyder,fyuf, sets, serene, S(c. 
