BY THE ISTHMUS OF PERECOP, 
Cherson, might entitle it to higher consideration. 
We observed the Polish costume very prevalent 
here; the men, in every respect, resembling 
Cossacks of the Don. To describe the journey 
between Biroslaf' and Cherson, would put the 
Reader’s patience to a very unnecessary trial, 
by the repetition of observations already, per- 
haps, too often made ; and it would give to these 
pages the monophanous character of the steppes, 
over which the journey was made. Before we 
reached the last post, we passed a considerable 
Society, and found by that celebrated chemist to contain the usual 
constituents of antient bronze ; namely, in the analysis of one hundred 
parts of this bronze, 88 parts of cortT.it, and 12 parts of tin. These 
are Mons. Tamara's words : “ Knt re les villes de Kiow et Kmnenchilk, 
auprts de la petite ville nomnu'e Jovnin, situte sur les bords de Dnieper, 
dans uue plains trts-fdendue et sabloneuse, on trouve en assez grande 
quantite des pointes de fitches, tlont la mature est de cuivre extreme- 
ment raftin'', et les formes varices. II n’y en a pas dans le nombre de 
celles qui ressemblc aux pointes de fitches aneiennes ou modernes. La 
quantity de ces pointes est si grande sur cette plaine, que les habitans 
qui ontla fabrication des eaux-de-vie libre, lesramassent pourraceom- 
moder leur alembiques, ct qui, pour quelque petite monoies, des petits 
garcons en ramassent toujours pour des voyageurs. Les pointes devraient 
ttre de la plus grande antiquity, et le mttal est si rafint qu’il u’y a pas 
de 1’oxide. Chaque fois que le vent a balayd cette plaine, ces poiutes 
se montrent, et e’est le terns de les ramasser.” 
(1) At Biroslaf we collected the following plants: — Common Cha- 
momile, Achillea nobilis j Hoary Wormwood, Artemisia pontica ; Long- 
flowered Squinancy-wort (Waldstein), Asperula longijlora ; White- 
flowered Scabious, Scabiosa leucantha ; Scull-cap, Scutellaria galcriculata i 
Italian Hedge-mustard, Sisymbrium Columns: ; Hair-like Feather-grass, 
Stipe capillata ; Silvery Goose-grass, Potentilla argentea ; Common 
Bugloss, Anchusa officinalis; Branching Knapweed, Centaurea paniculata. 
