Notes relating to the manners and customs of the Crim Tatars; written during a four years' residence among that people. With plates / By Mary Holderness.

  • Holderness, Mary.
Date:
1821
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Notes relating to the manners and customs of the Crim Tatars; written during a four years' residence among that people. With plates / By Mary Holderness. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Oxen cost^ on an average^ one hundred roubles per pair. Cows, about thirty-five roubles each, and some few sixty roubles. Horses, from twenty to one hundred and twenty roubles; some few one hundred and fifty to two hundred roubles ; the general price about forty roubles. Sheep and ewes, ten roubles; lambs, five roubles; rams, fifteen roubles; two year wethers, seven to ten roubles. Implements ;—a plough, twenty to thirty roubles ; a cart, twenty to twenty-five roubles. To hire a plough ten roubles a day are given, for which three men and six pair of oxen are furnished, who plough as much as four measures will sow.