$St              TEAVfclS   fN   RUSSIA,         B,   6*
^The Tartar havens are, l. The Bay of Bal*
km; & JVIanguflilak, {b<|th of which, but pa?-
tkukrly the latter* afford % fecure harbour,
1% Th|£ Ruffians frequent theiflands in/the bay
of Balkan; inhabited chiefly by, pirates of the
race of Turkoman Tartars: thefe ifl^nds pro-
duce rice and cotton, and one ©f them, called
Naphthonia, abounds in naph^tlm. The traffic
Bright be increafed to the advantage of Ruffia;
af it vould b? far moi$ commodious to trade
with the Tart^Lio|[Khivp, and;Bj^charia frnrn
thcfe parte, than frojp Orenhurghr through the
country of the w§rlike% tod independent Kirg.-
heejs. £•' Tiie coi|i|n|frce of Maiigjiihlak, is moft
confider^ble: the neighbouring Tartars bring to
flllf pific£ the pr9fj«fi;io$s.of their own country,
and evm of $mhw% ^ucb as cotton, yarn, a»4
ftuffi^ faff and^fki^s^a^jrhubarb %t
¥^im fi^d^^&mrnodipm ^ftopsd from Aftracan ta the port*
of the Cafplan fea, are cloths, chiefly Englifh, Dutch, French, an4
Silefianj vitriol, foap/altum^ fugar. Ruffian leather, needlei, and
cijltoii 4s&h,<<tarfk Ilnai ifiiri^ftaurcd in ^uffia, velvets, glafs-
warn ^d,|^f#ing^afl^,wri%f fiajper, a fe# fnm md ikins, a.
foiall quantity of tea, provifions, <hiefly cora and butter, wine%
brandy, wooden furniture, fea-hkfe teeth; aliblron^ brafs, tin,
fead,Mrdwti*e, watehes, kc.ko.. In 1775, die vihieaf thecbtht
expcrtedamonfled^ ^|i#f©r;*e cochbf# to^f45,600) and
tk* i»%oti>£.7,00a Imports; Raw an4 nfapufaaured filka,
tat cfecfiy the former, from the proknees of Stiirvan and Ghiianj
which article, lii 1775, amounted to £.43,806/ Btitlftriaii lamb-'
ftias, rice, drie4 fruit, fpices and drugs, coifFce, wine, faffron, fait,
fulphur.