View of the Russian Empire During the Reign of Catharine the Second And to the C
View of the Russian Empire During the Reign of Catharine the Second And to the C
William Tooke
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The fifhery at the mouths of the rivers that fall into the Cafpian is of fuch confequence that it is much to be wifhed fome alteration were made in the manner wherein it is conducted. The utfchiugs were contrived by the aflrakhan Tartars, to whom it was naturally a matter of very great indifference whether "by thefe wears they flopped up the paffage to the fifh in their migration to the fuperior regions of the rivers, or whether it had been invented on purpofe to deprive the Ruffians of the ben...efit of fo rich and perpetual a fource of livelihood. Now, that the Volga and the Ural, from their heads to their * Pallas, travels ^ torn. I. P. 132 134. N a other iBo PRODUCTIVE INDUSTRY, &C. other extremities, flow only over ruffian terri- tory, it would be but juft and equitable to de- ftroy that memorial of the Tartars, and to let the upper inhabitants of thefe rivers participate in the enjoyment of the valuable kinds of fifh, of which there would be far more throughout Ruffia if the pafiage from the Cafpian were not fo entirely flopped.
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