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chap, state, over all the South of Russia'. Fruit is 
— V— ' brought from Turkey ; such as figs, raisins, and 
oranges : also Greek wine from the Archipelago, 
with incense, coffee, silk, shawls, tobacco, and 
precious stones. Copper comes to them from 
Trebisond, but of a very inferior quality : it is 
all sent to Moscow. Among the principal ex- 
ports, are, caviare, butter, leather, tallow, corn, 
fur, canvas, rigging, linen, wool, hemp, and 
iron: of this last article above a million pouds 1 2 
were exported during the year of our visit to 
the place. Their canvas is very bad. The 
copper of Siberia is not brought to Taganrog, 
as Moscow receives the whole produce of the 
Siberian mines. Yet the greatest advantage the 
town enjoys, is, in being the depository of 
Siberian productions. From Orenburg they re- 
ceive tallow, fur, and iron : these, with the 
caviare of Astrachan, have only the short pas- 
sage by land intervening between Zaritzin on the 
Volga, and the Don ; a distance of forty English 
(1) “ In winter the greatest fishery is carried on. Holes are made 
in the ice, at small distances; and the net passed under from each of 
these to the next in succession, by means of a pole, until a large tract 
is inclosed. Christmas is consequently as busy a time as Midsummer, 
and a mild winter is ruinous.” Huber's MS. Journal. 
(2) A poud equals thirty-six pounds of English weight ; hut some 
writers, among others the translator of Pallas s 7 ravels through the 
South of Russia, &c. state it as equal to forty. 
