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CAFFA

Volume 5 · 72 words · 1815 Edition

commerce, painted cotton cloths manufactured in the East Indies, and sold at Bengal.

Kaffa, a city and port town of Crimean Tartary, situated on the south-east part of that peninsula. E. Long. 37°. O. N. Lat. 44°. 55'.

It is the most considerable town in the country, and gives gives name to the straits of Caffa, which run from the Euxine or Black sea, to the Palus Maeotis, or sea of Asoph.