268 BUKOREST. 
timber : all these articles are sent, by way of 
Farna, to Constantinople, accompanied by a 
Jirmdn, upon Government account, for the Porte. 
Other exports are, a species of TValachian wine, 
to Russia, called Fokchany ; also salt, and salted 
provisions : and they receive from Russia, in 
exchange, furs, linen, rhubarb, tea, leather, &c. 
They also send to Germany about thirty thousand 
hogs, and an immense quantity of horned cattle, 
horses, and other animals ; hare-skins, hides, 
honey, wax, and tanned leather; receiving from 
that country almost every thing they have, from 
the cheapest necessaries up to the most ex- 
pensive luxuries. 
Metropoii- Qn the twenty-first, we visited the Archbishop, 
tanMonas- J^ ' _ r' 
tery. at tlic MetropoUtc Convent. This monastery 
contains fifty monks, of whom twelve are the 
superiors. His Grace received us with great 
civility, and shewed us the church ; in which 
there is nothing remarkable, excepting the body 
of St. Demetrius, exhibited as a relic. Like 
most other ecclesiastical relics, it has its 
duplicate. The priests of Moscow also exhibit 
a shrub with alternate, shining, narrow, evers:reen leaves ; and not, 
as some have supposed, of the Rhamnus inferlorius, a procumbent 
shrub, with the leaves villnse underneath, and the branches irregular, 
covered with a dark brown bark. 
